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Title:
Where cultures meet : frontiers in Latin American history / David J. Weber and Jane M. Rausch, editors.
Publisher:
SR Books,
Copyright Date:
1994
Description:
xli, 233 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Frontier thesis.
Pluralism (Social sciences)--Latin America.
Acculturation--Latin America.
Latin America--Philosophy.--Philosophy.
Other Authors:
Weber, David J.
Rausch, Jane M., 1940-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-230).
Contents:
The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Latin-American frontiers / Arthur S. Aiton -- Frontier barbarism / Domingo Faustino Sarmiento -- The frontier in Hispanic America / Victor Andrés Belaúnde -- The frontiers of Hispanic America / Silvio Zavala -- The great frontier / Walter Prescott Webb -- The great frontier : freedom and hierarchy / William H. McNeill -- New world frontiers : comparisons and agendas / Walter Nugent -- Reflections on the Ibero-American frontier mission as an institution in Native American history / David G. Sweet -- The encomienda in Paraguay / Elman R. Service -- Frontier warfare in colonial Chile / Louis de Armond -- "Black transfrontiersmen" : the Caribbean maroons / Franklin W. Knight -- Family, frontiers, and a Brazilian community / Alida C. Metcalf.
National identity and the frontier / Hebe Clementi -- The gaucho in Argentina's quest for national identity / Richard W. Slatta -- Bandeirantes and pioneers / Clodomir Vianna Moog -- "Two-step' migration and upward mobility on the frontier : the safety valve effect in Pejibaye, Costa Rica / James Sewastynowicz -- Violence on the frontier / Joe Foweraker -- Frontier expansion and Indian peoples in the Brazilian Amazon / Alcida R. Ramos -- Social change on the Latin American frontier / Emilio Willems.
Series:
Jaguar books on Latin America ; no. 6
ISBN:
9780842024785 (pbk.)
0842024786 (pbk.)
9780842024778 (cloth : alk. paper)
0842024778 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)29845028
LCCN:
94001788
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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