Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies of the Americas
ISBN-10
1403971315
ISBN-13
9781403971319
Edition
2006 ed.
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 13th, 2006
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
488 grams
Dimensions
21.90 x 14.80 x 2.30 cms
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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.
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outward orientation, which has prompted successive waves of reform ''from above and without'', often resisted and superceded rather than fully assimilated.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.
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