This innovative contribution to comparative area studies evaluates Latin America's distinctiveness, and shows how 'large regions' can be compared. The overwhelming impact of Europe followed by precocious independence produced an exceptional outward orientation, which has prompted successive waves of reform 'from above and without', often resisted and superceded rather than fully assimilated. This book explores the resulting patterns that can be observed in multiple domains, through the optic of a 'mausoleum of modernity.' By applying this perspective to state organization, the politics of expertise, privatization, poverty and inequality, and citizenship insecurity, it generates an overall new interpretation of Latin America's regional distinctiveness.
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This innovative contribution to comparative area studies evaluates Latin America's distinctiveness, and shows how 'large regions' can be compared. The overwhelming impact of Europe followed by precocious independence produced an exceptional outward orientation, which has prompted successive waves of reform 'from above and without', often resisted and superceded rather than fully assimilated. This book explores the resulting patterns that can be observed in multiple domains, through the optic of a 'mausoleum of modernity.' By applying this perspective to state organization, the politics of expertise, privatization, poverty and inequality, and citizenship insecurity, it generates an overall new interpretation of Latin America's regional distinctiveness.
Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Series | Studies of the Americas |
Release date | November 2009 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | December 2009 |
Authors | L. Whitehead |
Dimensions | 216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 300 |
Edition | Revised edition |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-230-61996-8 |
Barcode | 9780230619968 |
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LSN | 0-230-61996-7 |