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The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by
leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths
about Alexander von Humboldt and his world. Rather than 'follow in
Humboldt's footsteps,' this book outlines the new critical horizon
of post-Humboldtian Humboldt studies: the archaeology of all that
lies buried under the Baron's epistemological footprint. Contrary
to the popular image of Humboldt as a solitary 'adventurer' and
'hero of science' surrounded by New World nature, The Invention of
Humboldt demonstrates that the Baron's opus and practice was
largely derivative of the knowledge communities and archives of the
Hispanic world. Although Humboldtian writing has invented a
powerful cult that has served to erase the sources of his knowledge
and practice, in truth Humboldt did not 'invent nature,' nor did he
pioneer global science: he was the beneficiary of Iberian natural
science and globalization. Nor was Humboldt a pioneering,
'postcolonial' cultural relativist. Instead, his anthropological
views of the Americas were Orientalist and historicist and, in most
ways, were less enlightened than those of his Creole
contemporaries. This book will reshape the landscape of Humboldt
scholarship. It is essential reading for all those interested in
Alexander von Humboldt, the Hispanic American enlightenment, and
the global history of science and knowledge.
The global phenomenon of decolonization was born in the Americas in
the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The First Wave
of Decolonization is the first volume in any language to describe
and analyze the scope and meanings of decolonization during this
formative period. It demonstrates that the pioneers of
decolonization were not twentieth-century Frenchmen or Algerians
but nineteenth-century Peruvians and Colombians. In doing so, it
vastly expands the horizons of decolonization, conventionally
understood to be a post-war development emanating from Europe. The
result is a provocative, new understanding of the global history of
decolonization.
The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by
leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths
about Alexander von Humboldt and his world. Rather than 'follow in
Humboldt's footsteps,' this book outlines the new critical horizon
of post-Humboldtian Humboldt studies: the archaeology of all that
lies buried under the Baron's epistemological footprint. Contrary
to the popular image of Humboldt as a solitary 'adventurer' and
'hero of science' surrounded by New World nature, The Invention of
Humboldt demonstrates that the Baron's opus and practice was
largely derivative of the knowledge communities and archives of the
Hispanic world. Although Humboldtian writing has invented a
powerful cult that has served to erase the sources of his knowledge
and practice, in truth Humboldt did not 'invent nature,' nor did he
pioneer global science: he was the beneficiary of Iberian natural
science and globalization. Nor was Humboldt a pioneering,
'postcolonial' cultural relativist. Instead, his anthropological
views of the Americas were Orientalist and historicist and, in most
ways, were less enlightened than those of his Creole
contemporaries. This book will reshape the landscape of Humboldt
scholarship. It is essential reading for all those interested in
Alexander von Humboldt, the Hispanic American enlightenment, and
the global history of science and knowledge.
The global phenomenon of decolonization was born in the Americas in
the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The First Wave
of Decolonization is the first volume in any language to describe
and analyze the scope and meanings of decolonization during this
formative period. It demonstrates that the pioneers of
decolonization were not twentieth-century Frenchmen or Algerians
but nineteenth-century Peruvians and Colombians. In doing so, it
vastly expands the horizons of decolonization, conventionally
understood to be a post-war development emanating from Europe. The
result is a provocative, new understanding of the global history of
decolonization.
Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for
recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the
first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and
anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective
of the Americas. These essays extend and revise the insights of
postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging
from the narratives of eighteenth-century travelers and clerics in
the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in present-day
Colombia. The editors argue that the construction of an array of
singular histories at the intersection of particular colonialisms
and nationalisms must become the critical project of postcolonial
history-writing. Challenging the universalizing tendencies of
postcolonial theory as it has developed in the Anglophone academy,
the contributors are attentive to the crucial ways in which the
histories of Latin American countries-with their creole elites,
hybrid middle classes, subordinated ethnic groups, and complicated
historical relationships with Spain and the United States-differ
from those of other former colonies in the southern hemisphere.
Yet, while acknowledging such differences, the volume suggests a
host of provocative, critical connections to colonial and
postcolonial histories around the world. Contributors Thomas
Abercrombie Shahid Amin Jorge Canizares-Esguerra Peter Guardino
Andres Guerrero Marixa Lasso Javier Morillo-Alicea Joanne Rappaport
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Mark Thurner
More than the story of a South American country, "History's Peru"
examines how the entity called "Peru" gradually came into being,
and how the narratives that defined it evolved over time. Mark
Thurner here offers a brilliant account of Peruvian historiography,
one that makes a pioneering contribution not only to Latin American
studies but also to the history of historical thought at large. He
traces the contributions of key historians of Peru, from the
colonial period through the present, and teases out the theoretical
underpinnings of their approaches. He demonstrates how Peruvian
historical thought critiques both European history and Anglophone
postcolonial theory. And his deeply informed readings of Peru's
most influential historians--from Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to
Jorge Basadre--are among the most subtle and powerful available in
English. In this tour de force, Thurner examines the development of
Peruvian historical thought from its misty colonial origins in the
sixteenth century up to the present day. He demonstrates that the
concept of "Peru" is both a strange and enlightening invention of
the modern colonial imagination--an invention that lives on today
as a postcolonial wager on a democratic political future that can
only be imagined in its own historicist terms, not those of
European or Western history. A fascinating counter example to those
who mistakenly believe history to be an exact and objective
science, "History's Peru" is an intellectual adventure of wide
scope and great originality. Mark Thurner is associate professor of
history and anthropology at the University of Florida.
From Two Republics to One Divided examines Peru's troubled
transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic from
the local perspective of Andean peasant politics. Thurner's reading
of the Andean peasantry's engagement and disengagement with the
postcolonial state challenges long-standing interpretations of
Peruvian and modern Latin American history and casts a critical eye
toward Creole and Eurocentric ideas about citizenship and
nationalism. Working within an innovative and panoramic historical
and linguistic framework, Thurner examines the paradoxes of a
resurgent Andean peasant republicanism during the mid-1800s and
provides a critical revision of the meaning of republican Peru's
bloodiest peasant insurgency, the Atusparia Uprising of 1885.
Displacing ahistorical and nationalist readings of Inka or Andean
continuity, and undermining the long-held notion that the colonial
legacy is the dominant historical force shaping contemporary Andean
reality, Thurner suggests that in Peru, the postcolonial legacy of
Latin America's nation-founding nineteenth century transfigured,
and ultimately reinvented, the colonial legacy in its own image.
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