| Author |
Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio, 1962-
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| Subject |
Latin America.
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Latin America -- Name.
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Latin America -- Civilization.
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| Alt Name |
Ohio Library and Information Network.
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| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Access |
Available to OhioLINK libraries |
| 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 |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
The basic connotations of an idea -- Iberismo and latinité -- The question of Brazil -- Latino/a and Latin America -- Singing latinoamérica -- US-centered Latin America, part 1 -- / US-centered Latin America, part 2 -- Latin America abides: but how should historians speak it? |
| Note |
Description based on print version record |
| ISBN |
9780226443232 (electronic bk.) |
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022644323X (electronic bk.) |
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9780226443065 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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022644306X (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| OCLC # |
979417675 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio, 1962- Latin America. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017 9780226443065 (DLC) 2016033494 (OCoLC)954134331. |
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