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The Frontier in Latin American History (Histories of the American Frontier)
The Frontier in Latin American History - Histories of the American Frontier Author:Alistair Hennessy A ground-breaking work on a little-known subject, this book examines the frontier experience in Latin America during the colonial and national periods and contrasts it with the frontier experiences in Canada, Australia, South Africa, and principally, the United States West. It provides thought-provoking analyses of a variety of frontiers i... more »n Latin America: mission frontiers, mining frontiers, and cattle frontiers with their concomitant social characteristics are deftly detailed.
The Latin American image of the frontier, depicted in Sarmiento’s Facundo as “dark and menacing” and replete with the “barbarism” of the interior as opposed to the “civilization” of the cities, exemplifies one of the significant differences presented by the author in his comparative view of Latin America and Anglo American perceptions of the frontier.
Valuable for the study of Latin American and United States history as well as of comparative history, this book will stimulate discussion of and research in comparative frontiers. « less
ISBN-13: 9780826304674 ISBN-10: 0826304672 Edition:First American Editi Rating: