Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America

Synoptic Methods and Practices

Karen Melvin editor Sylvia Sellers-García editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of New Mexico Press

Published:30th Dec '17

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Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America teaches imaginative and distinctive approaches to the practice of history through a series of essays on colonial Latin America. It demonstrates ways of making sense of the past through approaches that aggregate more than they dissect and suggest more than they conclude. Sidestepping more conventional approaches that divide content by subject, source, or historiographical “turn,” the editors seek to take readers beyond these divisions and deep into the process of historical interpretation. The essays in this volume focus on what questions to ask, what sources can reveal, what stories historians can tell, and how a single source can be interpreted in many ways.

Both students and seasoned scholars will benefit from a careful reading of this innovative volume."" - Susan Deans-Smith, author of Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico

ISBN: 9780826359223

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 580g

240 pages