Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975

by Helen Delpar

A comprehensive, ambitious, and valuable work on an increasingly important subject

In the Preface to her new study, Latin Americanist Helen Delpar writes, "Since the seventeenth century, Americans have turned their gaze toward the lands to the south, seeing in them fields for religious proselytization, economic enterprise, and military conquest." Delpar, consequently, aims her considerable gaze back at those Americans and the story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817354646
• ISBN13: 9780817354640
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"