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Australian Manuscript Sources and Programs for the Study of the History of Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Thomas M. Bader
Thomas M. Bader*
Affiliation:
California State University, Northridge
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A vital interest in the affairs of Latin America has grown recently in Australia. There, in that land “in back of the beyond,” professors are offering new programs of Latin American studies while their librarian counterparts have strengthened their holdings through active participation in the Latin American cooperative acquisition program (LACAP) and in the seminars on the acquisition of Latin American library materials (SALALM). The move of claudio Véliz from the universidad de chile to the chair of the department of sociology, La Trobe University (Bundoora, Victoria), will stimulate further the development of Latin American studies in the antipodes, while the resurgence of trans-pacific sailings during the past decade is attracting the interest of the Australians to the nations across the Pacific. It is worth noting that last year Professor Gilbert Butland of the University of New England, Armidale (New South Wales) published a general study entitled The other side of the Pacific: Problems of Latin America (Sydney, 1972).

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Latin American Research Review , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , 1974 , pp. 105 - 114
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Copyright © 1974 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. The opening or closing of the Suez Canal influences profoundly the patterns and amounts of trans-Pacific merchant shipping. The closure of the Canal has led to a marked increase of trade across the Pacific.

2. For a review of this trade see my article, “Before the Gold Fleets: Trade and Relations between Chile and Australia, 1830-1848,” to appear in the Journal of Latin American Studies.

3. See the discussion of this problem in T. W. Keeble, Commercial Relations between British Overseas Territories and South America, 1806-1914 (London, 1970).

4. See the discussion of CSIRO in the report “Latin American Studies in Australia” prepared by the National Library of Australia, and read by Mr. Robert Paton before the Sixteenth Seminar of SALALM (Pueblo, Mexico, June 1971).

5. I acknowledge gratefully the support extended to me by the American Philosophical Society and by the University of New England (Armidale, New South Wales), which helped to defray the expenses of my research in Australia.

6. For the Cosme Colony see Gavin Souter, A Peculiar People: The Australians in Paraguay (Sydney, 1968). As examples of such particular research see Phyllis Mander-Jones, “A Sketchbook found in Australia,” 3:3 (Sept.-Dec., 1953). See also Thomas M. Bader, “Un naufragio australiano de 1828 en la costa de Arauco,” Revista de Estudios del Pacifico, 6: (Valparaíso, Marzo, 1973).

7. Unless otherwise stated the remainder of this paper combines my own observations with those noted in the NLA report, “Latin American Studies in Australia,” cited previously.

8. This report has not considered the status of Latin American Studies in New Zealand. There seem to be no developed programs in that nation but see the June 13, 1973, letter of Steven S. Webster, University of Auckland, in the Latin American Studies Association, Newsletter, 4:2:35, where he reports that he is teaching a course in the regional ethnography of Latin America, and that the Department of History may institute a program of Lain American Studies.