This book analyzes the Americas, North and South, in the global and comparative arena, showing how these societies gazed each other and Europe as they followed the road to multiple forms of modernity and globalization. New insights are contributed on the ways in which reflected conceptions of modernity, with utopian overtones, influenced the ways in which politicians and intellectuals viewed their own societies, other societies in the New World, and the older nations of Europe.

About the Author
Luis Roniger is Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies at Wake Forest University. A comparative political sociologist, his work focuses on the interface between politics, society and public culture. Carlos H Waisman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of a large number of articles and books and book chapters.

Reviews
"Well worth reading for its coherence, the quality of chapters that use rich historical detail and the scope of its empirical roots." -- Contemporary Sociology.



Book Information
ISBN 9781902210452
Author Luis Roniger
Format Hardback
Page Count 325
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Weight(grams) 646g