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When Was Latin America Modern? (Studies of the Americas)

By Stephen Hart , Nicola Miller

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
1403980004, 9781403980007, 9780230603042
LCC
F1408.3 .W46 2007
Open Library ID
OL20267354M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
615 kB (629607 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
224\224
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Modernity has been a key issue for Latin Americans and Latin Americanists for decades.  Did Latin America come early or late to modernity?  Was modernity imposed from outside the region, or has it been reinvented from within?  Is modernity monolithic or multiple?  The literature on the subject is rich, but--like Latin American modernity itself is often said to be--it is also fragmented, supplying contradictory answers to all these crucial questions.  When Was Latin America Modern? is the first work to bring scholars from history, social science and cultural studies together in a fascinating series of debates about what it has meant to be modern in Latin America.

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