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The Idea of Latin America

Walter D. Mignolo

出版	Wiley, 2005-12-23
主題	History / Modern / 19th CenturyHistory / General
ISBN	14051008509781405100854
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=joxitAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The Idea of Latin America is a geo-political manifesto whichinsists on the need to leave behind an idea which belonged to thenation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.

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• Charts the history of the concept of Latin America from itsemergence in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth centurythrough various permutations to the present day.
  
• Asks what is at stake in the survival of an idea whichsubdivides the Americas.
  
• Reinstates the indigenous peoples and migrations excluded bythe image of a homogenous Latin America with defined borders.
  
• Insists on the pressing need to leave behind an idea whichbelonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-centuryEurope.