Discovering "os ianques do sul": towards an entangled Luso-Hispanic history of Latin America

• Main Author: Ori Preuss
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais 2013-12-01
• Series: Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional
• Subjects: Brasil; história entrelaçada; intercâmbio intelectual; América Latina; transnacionalismo
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-73292013000200009&lng=en&tlng=en

The article reconstructs the largely forgotten role of key Brazilian intellectuals in the Latins-versus-Anglo-Saxons debates that developed around 1898, emphasizing the embeddedness of their thinking in the transnational crossings of men and ideas within South America. It thus challenges the common depiction of late-nineteenth-century Latin Americanism as a purely Spanish American phenomenon and of the United States as its major catalyst, allowing a more nuanced understanding of this movement' s nature.