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23%OFFMauricio Tenorio-Trillo - Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea - 9780226443065 - V9780226443065
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Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea

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Description for Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226443065
SKU
V9780226443065
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About Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo is the Samuel N. Harper Professor of history at the University of Chicago and associate professor at the Centro de Investigaci n y Docencia Econ micas, Mexico City. He is the author of many books including I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, also published by the University of Chicago Press. ... Read more

Reviews for Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea
Serving as an investigation of Latin America in the abstract, historian Tenorio-Trillo's work reframes the understanding of not only where this abstract concept originated but also why it endures. . .Rooted in deep, thorough interdisciplinary research and analysis and written in witty prose, the book promises to open rich dialogues, not only within graduate seminar classrooms but also ... Read more

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