From frontiers to football an alternative history of Latin America since 1800
With Brazil hosting the FIFA World Cup this summer and the Olympic Games in 2016, all eyes are on Latin America. But what vision of these countries will we be given? Will our airwaves be full of cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and inaccurate interpretations of the region's position i...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Reaktion Books
2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | With Brazil hosting the FIFA World Cup this summer and the Olympic Games in 2016, all eyes are on Latin America. But what vision of these countries will we be given? Will our airwaves be full of cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and inaccurate interpretations of the region's position in the world? In From Frontiers to Football, Matthew Brown provides a much-needed historical analysis to rebut misconceptions about Latin America's past while giving readers the tools with which to understand the region's complex present. Inhaltsverzeichnis: Goodbye, Colonial Worlds: Independence -- Building Nations, Looking for Models -- Raw Materials, Raw Wounds -- New Exchanges, New Markets -- Beneath a New Empire -- Latin America in the Cold War -- Violence and Exoticism -- Unleashed from Empire? |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-239) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 248 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781780233536 978-1-78023-353-6 1780233531 1-78023-353-1 |