Author: David P. Werlich
Publisher: New York : Garland Publishing
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Graham
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-08-27
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1477300864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New Approaches to Latin American History incorporates methods and concepts from the social sciences without abandoning a distinctively historical approach. A collection of original essays by distinguished younger scholars, it proposes original concepts and methods for analyzing crucial problems in Latin American history. Using as examples such subjects as salvery, dictatorship, immigration, and the relationship between land ownership and political power, the contributors show how approaches and techniques from psychology, political science, economics. and sociology can be applied to historical studies. The papers attempt to explain the thematic and substantive importance of the particular problems at hand; describe and evaluate standard approaches to them; propose original hypotheses; suggest methods for testing the hypotheses; or indicate major methodological or conceptual difficulties that have so far hampered such work. Despite their diversity of content, the papers show strong underlying unities. First, they all point to the need for placing institutions and actions in a broad societal context. The authurs present an implicit, cumulative argument against the excessive isolation of historical phenomena. Second, they demonstrate the utility of interdisciplinary research. Third, they issue an implicit call for rigorous comparative analysis. The propositions formulated in these essays can best tested and modified in comparative fashion. Ultimately this book deals with the exposition of a research style: a style based on systematic doubt, an awareness of the need for conceptual rigor, and a willingness to try new methodologies. For this reason it is of interest to historians in every field as well as to students of Latin America.
Author: Ana Barahona
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2022-05-31
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9783030747220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides a definitive assessment of the historiography of the life sciences and medicine in Latin America. It makes historiographic work available for new scholars to join the field and for graduate students and other scholars new to the history of science in Latin America, by means of meaningful and original contributions.This volume brings transnational analysis to the center of global historiographical discussions. It seeks to contribute both empirically and theoretically to the fields of History of Science and Science and Technology Studies (STS) in Latin America, to account for how the knowledge produced in developing countries is part of international knowledge as it circulates in transnational collaborative networks. The volume consists of articles written by experienced, expert authors who expose the lines of ongoing research in the history of life sciences and medicine in Latin America in order to provide an overview of the multiplicity of analytic frameworks and perspectives in a way that allows them to be contrasted with each other. Some of the topics discussed include Asymmetrical networks of collaboration, Circulation of Knowledge, Conceptual History, History and Art, History of Race, Gender and the like, and many more.
Author: Bill Katz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-12-06
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1000757706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, first published in 1987, is a stimulating and informative appraisal of the international librarianship scene and the reference service function. Experts discuss how international reference services can be improved to facilitate true exchange of information around the world. They look squarely at problems and provide answers to a host of pertinent questions, such as information counselling and policies, reference services and global awareness, integrating a central reference international studies program, and more.
Author: Salvatore Bizzarro
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2005-04-20
Total Pages: 1003
ISBN-13: 0810865424
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Surveys the radical changes that have occurred in recent years in every aspect of Chilean life. Features more than 3,000 dictionary entries covering history, politics, geography, economics, the environment, culture, and a myriad other topics that include writers, artists, playwrights, and important figures, many of which were not included in the previous edition. Also included are 24 photographs of the paintings of famous Latin American artists, and an exhaustive bibliography of more than 1,200 resources subdivided by topic and fully annotated.
Author: Conference on Latin American History
Publisher: Durham, N.C : Published for the Conference on Latin American History [by] Duke University Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jack R. Thomas
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0313230048
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jack Ray Thomas combines an extensive review of Latin American historiography with biographical sketches of historians who were Latin Americans to form a resource tool unique in its format, content, and uses. Thomas begins with an overview of Latin American historiography from the colonial period to the present. Following this extended review, Thomas provides bio-bibliographical sketches of Latin American historical writers, both amateur and professional. These sketches examine the individual's contribution and career and provide a bibliographical summary of primary and secondary materials. Four appendixes list and cross-reference historians according to birthplace, year of birth, career, and subjects researched.