Reinventing Modernity in Latin America
Subtitle: Intellectuals Imagine the Future, 1900-1930 (Studies of the Americas)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780230603875
Subjects: History & Theory - General; Latin America - South America; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Civilization, Modern; Latin America; Modernism (Literature); Philosophy; Politics/International Relations
Description: This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of the Western dominant model.