| Description |
239 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-224) and index. |
| Contents |
The basic connotations of an idea -- Iberismo and latinité -- The question of Brazil -- Latino/a and Latin America -- Singing Latinoamérica -- US-centered Latin America, part 1 -- / US-centered Latin America, part 2 -- Latin America abides: but how should historians speak it? |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Language |
Text is primarily in English with some passages in Spanish and Portuguese. |
| Subject |
Latin America.
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Latin America -- Name.
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Latin America -- Civilization.
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15.85 history of America. (NL-LeOCL)07761190X
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Names. (OCoLC)fst01032344
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Latin America. (OCoLC)fst01245945
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Begriff. (DE-588)4005248-5
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Lateinamerika. (DE-588)4074032-8
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Latin America. (NL-LeOCL)078570980
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15.85 history of America. (NL-LeOCL)07761190X
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9780226443232 |
| ISBN |
9780226443065 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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022644306X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226705200 (paperback) |
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022670520X (paperback) |
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9780226443232 (e-book) |
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