Disciplinary Conquests: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945.

AuthorRothera, Evan C.
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Salvatore, Ricardo D. Disciplinary Conquests: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016.

Ricardo D. Salvatore, plenary professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Telia in Buenos Aires, has written and edited many books about Latin American history. His monograph Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era offers an excellent exploration of the lower classes during the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas. In addition, he edited Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times, with Gilbert M. Joseph and Carlos Aguirre, and Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations, with Gilbert M. Joseph and Catherine C. LeGrand. In other words, he is an expert on the history of Latin America, particularly the relationship between South America and the United States.

In Disciplinary Conquests: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945, Salvatore argues that the United States "rediscovered" South America during the first half of the twentieth century. This tome analyzes five scholars--archaeologist Hiram Bingham, historian Clarence H. Haring, political scientist Leo...

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