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Understanding Latin America A Decoding Guide

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ISBN-10: 9813229942

ISBN-13: 9789813229945

Edition: 2017

Authors: Alfredo Toro Hardy

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From afar, Latin America looks like a blurry tableau: devoid of defining lines, particularities and nuances. Little is understood about the idiosyncrasies of Latin-Americans, their cultural identity and social values. Differences between Brazilians and Spanish Americans, or amid the diverse Spanish American countries, are not sufficiently understood. Even less is known about the amplitude of the Iberian heritage of such countries, or about the miscegenation and acculturation processes that took place among their different constitutive races. There is no clarity regarding the Western nature of Latin America or about its cultural affinities with Latin Europe. Nor is there sufficient…    
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Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Publication date: 10/9/2017
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 270
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Alfredo Toro Hardyis a Venezuelan diplomat and academic. He is thenbsp;author of 15 books, includingThe Age of Villages: The Small Village vs. The Global Village,nbsp;and the coauthor of another 12 on international matters.