{"id":5018,"date":"2022-04-30T14:13:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T18:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/?p=5018"},"modified":"2022-04-30T14:18:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T18:18:50","slug":"fifty-years-of-research-in-latin-american-studies-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/2022\/04\/30\/fifty-years-of-research-in-latin-american-studies-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years of Research in Latin American Studies in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Britain enjoyed close financial links with Latin America in the nineteenth and early twentieth century (thanks to which the major libraries are well stocked: the Public Records Office is a rich source for research on that period), and produced a distinguished list of English and Scottish travel writers in the nineteenth century and even earlier. Yet by the mid-twentieth century the UK had precious little academic expertise on the region, especially when compared with the Middle East and the former colonies. A handful of historians, ill-recognized in the profession as a whole, wrote general books on the region, and even social anthropology had scarcely woken up to its existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-dimitri-dim-1845844.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-dimitri-dim-1845844.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-dimitri-dim-1845844-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-dimitri-dim-1845844-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-dimitri-dim-1845844-370x245.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-dimitri-dim-1845844-760x503.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-dimitri-dim-1845844-600x397.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/david-docs-pdf\/Pub-pap\/Lehmann&amp;CraskeFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/adlehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Two-paths-of-agrarian-capitalism.pdf noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain enjoyed close financial links with Latin America in the nineteenth and early twentieth century (thanks to which the major libraries are well stocked: the Public Records Office is a rich source for research on that period), and produced a distinguished list of English and Scottish travel writers in the nineteenth century and even earlier. Yet by the mid-twentieth century the UK&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-published-papers"],"wbAuthor":{"name":"adlehmann","link":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/author\/adlehmann\/"},"wbDate":"Apr 30, 2022","wbCategories":{"space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/category\/publications\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Publications<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/category\/publications\/published-papers\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Published Papers<\/a>","coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/category\/publications\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Publications<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/category\/publications\/published-papers\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Published Papers<\/a>"},"wbComment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5028,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions\/5028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}