Latin America : The Allure and Power of an Idea Paperback / softback
by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Paperback / softback
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"Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory.
Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively. Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three interlocking steps: first, an intellectual history of the concept of Latin America in its natural historical habitat--mid-nineteenth-century redefinitions of empire and the cultural, political, and economic intellectualism; second, a serious and uncompromising critique of the current "Latin Americanism"--which circulates in United States-based humanities and social sciences; and, third, accepting that we might actually be stuck with "Latin America," Tenorio-Trillo charts a path forward for the writing and teaching of Latin American history.
Accessible and forceful, rich in historical research and specificity, the book offers a distinctive, conceptual history of Latin America and its many connections and intersections of political and intellectual significance.
Tenorio-Trillo's book is a masterpiece of interdisciplinary scholarship.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:06/02/2020
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- ISBN:9780226705200
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:06/02/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226705200