Latin America Books

New and Published Books

1. Latin America and Contemporary Modernity

   A Sociological Interpretation

   By José Maurício Domingues

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In this book, renowned author José Maurício Domingues places Latin America within the third phase of global modern civilization and offers a general theoretical approach to contemporary Latin America. He sees modernity as configured by episodic modernizing moves which, when counting on strong...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
2. The Political Economy of Latin America

   Reflections on Neoliberalism and Development

   By Peter Kingstone

   Neoliberalism has been at the centre of enormous controversy since its first appearance in Latin America in the early 1970s. Even neoliberalism’s strongest supporters concede that it has not lived up to its promises and that growth, poverty, and inequality all have performed considerably worse than...

   Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge
3. Leftovers

   Tales of the Latin American Left

   Edited by Jorge G. Castañeda, Marco A. Morales

   Over a decade ago, Jorge Castañeda wrote the classic Utopia Unarmed, which offered a penetrating and comprehensive account of the Latin American left’s fate at the end of the Cold War. Since then, the left across Latin America has travelled in paths no one could have predicted. Latin American...

   Published July 6th 2008 by Routledge