The Idea of Latin America PDF
by Walter D. Mignolo
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The Idea of Latin America is a geo-political manifesto which insists on the need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.
- Charts the history of the concept of Latin America from its emergence in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century through various permutations to the present day.
- Asks what is at stake in the survival of an idea which subdivides the Americas.
- Reinstates the indigenous peoples and migrations excluded by the image of a homogenous Latin America with defined borders.
- Insists on the pressing need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.
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- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:09/02/2009
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- ISBN:9781405150170
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:09/02/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781405150170