The Other West: Latin America from Invasion to Globalization
Marcello Carmagnani
Abstract
This book provides a provocative interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. The book sheds new light on historical processes and explains how this vast expanse of territory—stretching from the American Southwest to the tip of the Southern Cone—became Europeanized in the colonial period, and how the European and American civilizations transformed one another as they grew together. The book departs from traditional historical thought by situating the narrative in the contex ... More
Keywords: global economy, global politics, historical processes, American Southwest, Southern Cone, colonial period, European civilization, American civilization, world history, Iberian population
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520247987 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520247987.001.0001 |
