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Latin America : a new interpretation /

This innovative contribution to comparative area studies evaluates Latin America's distinctiveness, and shows how 'large regions' can be compared. The overwhelming impact of Europe followed by precocious independence produced an exceptional outward orientation, which has prompted succ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whitehead, Laurence
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Colección:Studies of the Americas.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This innovative contribution to comparative area studies evaluates Latin America's distinctiveness, and shows how 'large regions' can be compared. The overwhelming impact of Europe followed by precocious independence produced an exceptional outward orientation, which has prompted successive waves of reform 'from above and without', often resisted and superceded rather than fully assimilated. This book explores the resulting patterns that can be observed in multiple domains, through the optic of a 'mausoleum of modernity.' By applying this perspective to state organization, the politics of expertise, privatization, poverty and inequality, and citizenship insecurity, it generates an overall new interpretation of Latin America's regional distinctiveness.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 300 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781403977229
1403977224
9781403971319
1403971315
1281367982
9781281367983
9780230619968
0230619967