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What if Latin America Ruled the World?: How the South Will Take the North into the 22nd Century

Autor Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iul 2011
For most Westerners, Latin America is the junior partner of the New World, an underdeveloped sibling to the US and Canada. The vibrancy of its culture is unquestionable, but the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries of Central and South America are easily typecast and overlooked as exotic, dangerous, and decidedly not part of the First World. In his provocative and powerful book, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera shows how Latin America and its people are making their presence felt across the world by upsetting long-standing political and economic assumptions and orthodoxies.

The US will still occupy center stage in the West for the time being, but few observers have taken notice of the rapid growth of Spanish language and culture within the USA--which is quietly and quickly becoming part of Latin America in its own way. Guardiola-Rivera's stimulating work is equally a hidden history of the modern world (the silver peso was the first global currency) and a piercing look at the future. Latin America has been in the vanguard of opposition to globalization, and its politics are imaginative, innovative and unlike those anywhere else in the world. For anyone interested in the future of the Western hemisphere or the world economy, What if Latin America Ruled the World? is a must-read.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408809778
ISBN-10: 140880977X
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: maps.
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

ENTERTAINING ERUDITION: Guardiola-Rivera is dizzyingly well-read and a bit of an adventurer. His first-hand accounts of touring the continent, combined with a masterful understanding of history and culture, make for a powerful, eye-opening read.

Notă biografică

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera teaches international law and international affairs at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has served as an aide to the Colombian Congress and as a consultant to the United Nations in South America. He has lectured in law, philosphy, and politics on three continents.

Recenzii

'An improbable proposition that is used to examine the economic dynamism and political creativity of a continent that is relatively neglected amid all the excitement about the emergence of new powers in Asia'
'An ambitious book with an ambitious agenda, both are to be applauded. If after reading it my North is still not quite the South, it has helped turn my intellectual compass through a few degrees. The world now looks more complex and more interesting'
'Puts the solutions to the current economic crisis of the rich world into their proper global perspective'

Descriere

A powerful and persuasive look at Latin America past and present