Latin America : A New Interpretation
| Author/creator |
Whitehead, Laurence Author |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | Revised |
| Publication Info | New York : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Description | 336 p. 08.500 x 05.500 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Studies of the Americas Ser. |
| Summary | 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outward orientation, which has prompted successive waves of reform 'from above and without', often resisted and superceded rather than fully assimilated.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 opticof 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780230619968 |
| ISBN | 0230619967 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780230619968 |
| Stock number | 00676990 |
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