When Was Latin America Modern?
Miller, Nicola (EDT)
Hart, Stephen M. (EDT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
Modernity has been a key issue for Latin Americans and Latin Americanists for decades. Did Latin America come early or late to modernity? Was modernity imposed from outside the region, or has it been reinvented from within? Is modernity monolithic o
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Modernity has been a key issue for Latin Americans and Latin Americanists for decades. Did Latin America come early or late to modernity? Was modernity imposed from outside the region, or has it been reinvented from within? Is modernity monolithic or multiple? The literature on the subject is rich, but--like Latin American modernity itself is often said to be--it is also fragmented, supplying contradictory answers to all these crucial questions. When Was Latin America Modern? is the first work to bring scholars from history, social science and cultural studies together in a fascinating series of debates about what it has meant to be modern in Latin America.
BOOK REVIEWS
"This collection of essays provides a very important contribution to the analysis of the discourse, practices and institutions of modernity in Latin America. Rather than agreeing on the usefulness of the analytical place of modernity, the authors--who come from various disciplines and are leading experts on different countries--disagree and debate implicitly with one another. This creates a collection that serves as a fascinating tool for learning about the ambiguous and tension-ridden connections of Latin American societies to some of the central ideas and institutions of Western modernity."
--Luis Roniger, Reynolds Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Wake Forest University
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403980004
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403980007
Dewey Decimal: 980
Library of Congress: 2006050734
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 217
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