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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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Series: | Studies of the Americas.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Latin America in comparative perspective
- Latin America as a "mausoleum of modernities"
- Latin American state organization
- The politics of expertise
- Economics in Mexico: the power of ideas and ideas of power
- Privatization and the public interest: partial theories, lopsides outcomes
- Democracy, inequality, and insecurity: a paradoxical configuration
- On characterizing Latin America.