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Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History (review)

Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History (review) journal of world history, fall 2002 Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History. Edited by jeremy adelman. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xii + 318. $22.99 (paper). In 1995, a gathering of historians at Princeton celebrated the silver anniversary of the publication of Barbara and Stanley Stein's The Colonial Heritage of Latin America. The book, widely read in survey courses on Latin America in the 1970s, introduced a generation of students to some basic historical arguments in support of dependency theory. The celebratory conference produced this collection of essays. Students of world history will find the opening chapters of interest, as the authors reject Eurocentricism in favor of an Atlantic view embracing the complexities of three diverse continents. Building on the "ecohistory" of Alfred Crosby, Philip Curtin wrestles with African origins of disease and revisits his own work on the plantation complex in an effort to demonstrate that--beyond their seafaring abilities-- Europeans did not obtain structured hegemony in the West until after the Industrial Revolution. Robert Tignor convincingly argues that, even after the Industrial Revolution, European views of Africa were at least partly defined by the "otherness" of the American encounters centuries earlier. Barbara and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History (review)

Sherman, John W.
Journal of World History , Volume 13 (2) – Oct 1, 2002
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journal of world history, fall 2002 Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History. Edited by jeremy adelman. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xii + 318. $22.99 (paper). In 1995, a gathering of historians at Princeton celebrated the silver anniversary of the publication of Barbara and Stanley Stein's The Colonial Heritage of Latin America. The book, widely read in survey courses on Latin America in the 1970s, introduced a generation of students to some basic historical arguments in support of dependency theory. The celebratory conference produced this collection of essays. Students of world history will find the opening chapters of interest, as the authors reject Eurocentricism in favor of an Atlantic view embracing the complexities of three diverse continents. Building on the "ecohistory" of Alfred Crosby, Philip Curtin wrestles with African origins of disease and revisits his own work on the plantation complex in an effort to demonstrate that--beyond their seafaring abilities-- Europeans did not obtain structured hegemony in the West until after the Industrial Revolution. Robert Tignor convincingly argues that, even after the Industrial Revolution, European views of Africa were at least partly defined by the "otherness" of the American encounters centuries earlier. Barbara and

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