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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2008

Series: Studies of the Americas

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349371921

Full citation:

Nicola Miller, Reinventing modernity in Latin America, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Reinventing modernity in Latin America

Nicola Miller

Contents

Introduction

against fate and ascription

1-21

Mapping out the modern

Rodó's critique of pure reason

23-69

Creating a workers' public sphere

Juan B. Justo's analysis of state and society

71-107

Translating the past into the present

the synthesizing modernity of Alfonso Reyes

109-141

A vital form of public space

Mariátegui's revolution in modernity

143-186

Conclusion

a distinctively Latin American modernity

Amy E. Varela

187-196