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Where cultures meet : frontiers in Latin American history / David J. Weber and Jane M. Rausch, editors.
| Other author | Weber, David J. |
| Other author | Rausch, Jane M., 1940- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, ©1994. |
| Description | xli, 233 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Jaguar books on Latin America ; no. 6 Jaguar books on Latin America ; no. 6. ^A321614 |
| Contents | The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Latin-American frontiers / Arthur S. Aiton -- Frontier barbarism / Domingo Faustino Sarmiento -- The frontier in Hispanic America / Victor Andrés Belaúnde -- The frontiers of Hispanic America / Silvio Zavala -- The great frontier / Walter Prescott Webb -- The great frontier : freedom and hierarchy / William H. McNeill -- New world frontiers : comparisons and agendas / Walter Nugent -- Reflections on the Ibero-American frontier mission as an institution in Native American history / David G. Sweet -- The encomienda in Paraguay / Elman R. Service -- Frontier warfare in colonial Chile / Louis de Armond -- "Black transfrontiersmen" : the Caribbean maroons / Franklin W. Knight -- Family, frontiers, and a Brazilian community / Alida C. Metcalf. |
| Contents | National identity and the frontier / Hebe Clementi -- The gaucho in Argentina's quest for national identity / Richard W. Slatta -- Bandeirantes and pioneers / Clodomir Vianna Moog -- "Two-step' migration and upward mobility on the frontier : the safety valve effect in Pejibaye, Costa Rica / James Sewastynowicz -- Violence on the frontier / Joe Foweraker -- Frontier expansion and Indian peoples in the Brazilian Amazon / Alcida R. Ramos -- Social change on the Latin American frontier / Emilio Willems. |
| Local note | Little-294158--305130046710U |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-230). |
| LCCN | 94001788 |
| ISBN | 0842024778 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0842024786 (pbk.) |