A Latin American Economic Community: History, Policies and Problems. By Nino Maritano. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre, Dame Press, 1970. Pp. 265. $9.95.)

1972 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 1411-1412
Author(s):  
Philippe C. Schmitter
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Community History ◽  
University Of Notre Dame ◽  
Latin American Economic

THE ‘PARRY REPORT’ (1965) AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-240
Author(s):  
GABRIEL PAQUETTE
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
Academic Politics

AbstractThis article examines the origins of the ‘Parry Report’ (1965), the implementation of which led to the massive expansion of Latin American Studies in the United Kingdom. Drawing on material from several archives, the article argues that the Report was the product of a peculiar geopolitical conjuncture – decolonization, the 1959 Cuban Revolution, Britain's rejection from the European Economic Community – that prompted the Foreign Office to convene a group of academics (and selected others) from institutions then in the process of formalizing links with US-based private foundations. It seeks to show how extramural and intramural factors, geopolitics and academic politics, combined to generate an interdisciplinary area study that survived long after the conditions that had given rise to its genesis had disappeared.

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