Latin America: A New Interpretation

by Laurence Whitehead

Book Overview

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outward orientation, which has prompted successive waves of reform 'from above and without', often resisted and superceded rather than fully assimilated.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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00ANYCP7Y
• ISBN13: 9780230619968
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"