Confronting Historical Paradigms

Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America

Bibliographic Data

ID4010208
AuthorsJorge I Dominguez (0000-0002-2193-553X), Faith Cooper (0009-0007-7927-7991), Florencia E Mallon, Steve J Stern, Allen Isaacman (Twin Cities Orthopedics), William Roseberry
Year1995
Volume25
Issue4
Pages760
Publication date1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofConfronting historical paradigms: Peasants, labor, and the capitalist world system in Africa and Latin America, Allen F Isaacman, 1993
VenueThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/205854
OpenAlexW2095837309
LanguageEN

Historical argues that confrontation with major paradigms of world history has marked the fields of African and Latin American history during the last quarter-century and that the process has dramatically restructured historical and theoretical understanding of peasantries, labour and the capitalist world system. Moreover, it maintains, the intellectual reverberations within and across the African and Latin American fields constitute a challenging and under-appreciated counterpoint to laments that contemporary historical knowledge has suffered a splintering so extreme that it undermines larger dialogue and meaning. The authors in their substantive essays synthesise, order and evaluate the significance of the enormous resonating literatures that have come to exist for Africa and Latin America on the themes of the capitalist world system, labour and peasantries. They historicise these literatures by analysing an entire cycle of critical dialogue and confrontation with historical paradigms and the professional upheavals that accompanied them. They also review the initial confrontations with frameworks of historical knowledge that erupted in the 1960s and the 1970s; the emergence of paradigms; the outpouring of subsequent scholarship on peasants, labour and capitalism that began to unravel the newly proposed paradigms by the 1980s and 1990s; and the outlines of the interpretive frameworks that tended to displace both the traditional and early dissident paradigms. They also suggest possible outlines of a cycle of Third World confrontations with paradigm, anchored in themes such as gender and ethnicity. Confronting Historical Paradigms employs a historicised awareness of intellectual networks, conversations and history-theory dialogues. The result is a critical analysis and synthetic presentation of substantive advances that have preoccupied scholarship on Africa and Latin America in recent decades and a powerful challenge of notions that new fields of history have ended up destroying intellectual coherence and community

Capitalism · Capitalist system · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Law

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