Studying Latin America: The Views of an “Old Christian”

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“…HANKE, 1967, 54. 30 FRANK, 1972 © Éditions Sciences Humaines | Téléchargé le 28/02/2022 sur www.cairn.info (IP: 44.224.250.200) © Éditions Sciences Humaines | Téléchargé le 28/02/2022 sur www.cairn.info(IP: 44.224.250.200) …”

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“…Lewis Hanke (1967) e Basadre (1949) Lewis Hanke escreveu em 1967 (p.43): "Less than ten years ago a gathering of scholars at the Newberry Library in Chicago lamented the lack of support for their disciplines, and drew up an impressive list of tools and monographs needed to advance the field. Presumably the specialists returned to their campuses refreshed by this heady and cathartic experience of thinking adventurously, but they found no change there in the attitudes of their university administrators or the majority of their colleagues, who still believed that Latin America was an area of peripheral value; the professors were not discharges, of course, for they had tenure, but the promise of the early flurry of Latin American area developments that had occurred in the 1940's was not fulfilled".…”

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