| Description |
xli, 233 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Jaguar books on Latin America ; no. 6
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Jaguar books on Latin America ; no. 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230). |
| 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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
Latin America -- Civilization -- Philosophy.
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Latin America. |
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Civilization. |
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Philosophy. |
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Frontier thesis.
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Frontier thesis. |
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Cultural pluralism -- Latin America.
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Cultural pluralism. |
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Acculturation -- Latin America.
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Acculturation. |
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Pluralismo (Ciencias sociales) -- América Latina. |
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Aculturación -- América Latina. |
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América Latina -- Civilización -- Filosofía. |
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Pluralismo (Ciencias sociales) -- Hispanoamérica
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Aculturación -- Hispanoamérica
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| Added Author |
Weber, David J.
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Rausch, Jane M., 1940-
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| ISBN |
0842024778 cloth alkaline paper |
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0842024786 paperback |
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