Latin America : the allure and power of an idea /

Latin America : the allure and power of an idea /

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Author / Creator:	Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio, 1962- author.
Edition:	Paperback edition.
Imprint:	Chicago : London : The University of Chicago Press, 2020. ©2017.
Description:	ix, 239 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English Spanish Portuguese
Subject:	Civilization. Historiography. Latin America. Latin America -- Name. Latin America -- Civilization. Latin America -- History. Latin America -- Historiography. Latin America. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12679863

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ISBN:	9780226705200 022670520X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Text is primarily in English with some passages in Spanish and Portuguese.
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.

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