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This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen
through a symbolic good and a practice - the book, and the act of
publication - two elements that have had an irrefutable power in
shaping the modern world. The volume combines multiple theoretical
approaches and empirical landscapes with the aim to comprehend how
Latin American publishers became the protagonists of a symbolic
unification of their continent from the 1930s through the 1970s.
The Latin American focus responds to a central point in its
history: the effective interdependence of the national cultures of
the continent. Americanism, until the 1950s, or Latin Americanism,
from the onset of the Cold War, were moral frameworks that guided
publishers' thinking and actions and had concrete effects on the
process of regional integration. The illustration of how Latin
American publishing markets were articulated opens up broader and
comparative questions regarding the ways in which the ideas
embodied in books also sought to unify other cultural areas. The
intersection of cultural, political and economic themes, as well as
the style of writing, makes this book an interest to a wide reading
public with historical and sociological sensitivity and global
cultural curiosity.
This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen
through a symbolic good and a practice - the book, and the act of
publication - two elements that have had an irrefutable power in
shaping the modern world. The volume combines multiple theoretical
approaches and empirical landscapes with the aim to comprehend how
Latin American publishers became the protagonists of a symbolic
unification of their continent from the 1930s through the 1970s.
The Latin American focus responds to a central point in its
history: the effective interdependence of the national cultures of
the continent. Americanism, until the 1950s, or Latin Americanism,
from the onset of the Cold War, were moral frameworks that guided
publishers' thinking and actions and had concrete effects on the
process of regional integration. The illustration of how Latin
American publishing markets were articulated opens up broader and
comparative questions regarding the ways in which the ideas
embodied in books also sought to unify other cultural areas. The
intersection of cultural, political and economic themes, as well as
the style of writing, makes this book an interest to a wide reading
public with historical and sociological sensitivity and global
cultural curiosity.
This volume employs new empirical data to examine the
internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH).
While the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of
the world over the last decades has been the subject of a growing
number of scientific studies, very few such studies have set out to
analyze the globalization of social and human sciences themselves.
Arguing against the complacent assumption that Science is
'international by nature', this work demonstrates that the growing
circulation of scholars and scientific ideas is a complex,
contradictory and contested process. Arranged thematically, the
chapters in this volume present a coherent exploration of patterns
of transnationalization, South-North and East-West exchanges, and
transnational regionalization. Further, they offer fresh insight
into specific topics including the influence of the Anglo-American
research infrastructure and the development of social and human
sciences in postcolonial contexts. Featuring contributions from
leading international scholars in the field, this work will advance
the research agenda and will have interdisciplinary appeal for
scholars from across the social sciences.
This volume employs new empirical data to examine the
internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH).
While the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of
the world over the last decades has been the subject of a growing
number of scientific studies, very few such studies have set out to
analyze the globalization of social and human sciences themselves.
Arguing against the complacent assumption that Science is
'international by nature', this work demonstrates that the growing
circulation of scholars and scientific ideas is a complex,
contradictory and contested process. Arranged thematically, the
chapters in this volume present a coherent exploration of patterns
of transnationalization, South-North and East-West exchanges, and
transnational regionalization. Further, they offer fresh insight
into specific topics including the influence of the Anglo-American
research infrastructure and the development of social and human
sciences in postcolonial contexts. Featuring contributions from
leading international scholars in the field, this work will advance
the research agenda and will have interdisciplinary appeal for
scholars from across the social sciences.
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