| Latin America: A New Interpretation Revised, Update Edition Contributor(s): Whitehead, L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230619967 ISBN-13: 9780230619968 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2012 Annotation: 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outward orientation, which has prompted successive waves of reform 'from above and without', often resisted and superceded rather than fully assimilated.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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Regional Studies - Political Science | Comparative Politics - Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 980 |
| Series: Studies of the Americas (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.94 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book of collected essays by Laurence Whitehead, an eminent scholar of Latin America, explores the structures and influences that bind together the region, shedding light on this vast and rapidly changing culture zone. |