Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America - Couverture souple

USA), Frederick Cooper (Professor Of History University Of Michigan; Isaacman, Allen F.; USA), Florencia E. Mallon (Professor Of Modern Latin American History University Of Wisconsin-Madison; USA), William Roseberry (Associate Professor Of Anthropology New School For Social Research; Stern, Steve J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0299136841 ISBN 13 : 9780299136840

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 1993

Synopsis

Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America "Confronting Historical Paradigms" argues that confrontation with major paradigms of world history has marked the fields of African and Latin American history during the last quarter-century, and that the process has dramatically restructured historical and theoretical understanding of peasantries, labor, and the capitalist world system. Moreover, it maintains, the intellectual reverberations within and across the African and Latin American fields constitute a challenging and underappreciated counterpoint to laments that contemporary historical knowledge has suffered a splintering so extreme that it undermines larger dialogue and meaning. The authors, in th...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0299136841
• ISBN 13: 9780299136840
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 422