Idea Latin America

von Mignolo

220 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: John Wiley & Sons
• ISBN: 9781405100854
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2005
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons