Latin America : The Allure and Power of an Idea / Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin America.

Latin America--Name.

Latin America--Civilization.

European history.

Latino/a history.

education.

history.

humanities.

intellectual history.

political philosophy.

Local Subjects:

European history.

Latin America.

Latino/a history.

education.

history.

humanities.

intellectual history.

political philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

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. Tenorio-Trillo's book is a masterpiece of interdisciplinary scholarship.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ONE / The Connotations of an Idea

TWO / Iberismo and Latinité

THREE / The Question of Brazil

FOUR / Latino/a and Latin America

FIVE / Singing Latinoamérica

S I X / US- Centered Latin America-Part 1

SEVEN / US- Centered Latin America-Part 2

EIGHT / "Latin America" Abides: But How Should Historians Speak It?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-226-70520-X

OCLC:

979417675