Reinventing Modernity in Latin America: Intellectuals Imagine the Future, 1900-1930

by N. Miller

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230603875
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/02/2008
Series:	Studies of the Americas
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Nicola Miller is Reader in Latin American History, University College London.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Against Fate and Ascription * Mapping Out the Modern: Rodó's Critique of Pure Reason * Creating a Workers' Public Sphere: Juan B. Justo's Analysis of State and Society * Translating the Past into the Present: The Integrating Modernity of Alfonso Reyes * A Vital Form of Public Space: Mariátegui's Revolution in Modernity * Conclusion: A Distinctively Latin American Modernity