Description
No previous review of theory comes close to this book's range and daring. Its audience should include not only Latin Americanists, but students of social theory and of development in general. -- Charles Tilly, Columbia University The Other Mirror succeeds in providing a highly stimulating account of the dialectics between general theory and history. It will have a much-needed positive impact on Latin American studies and its place in general social theory. -- Mauricio A. Font, The Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York
About the Author
Miguel Angel Centeno is Associate Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is the author of Mexico in the 1990s: Government and Opposition Speak Out and Democracy Within Reason: Technocratic Revolution in Mexico.
Fernando Lopez-Alves is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Between the Economy and the Polity in the River Plate and State Formation and Democracy in Latin America: 1810-1900.
Reviews
"No previous review of theory comes close to this book's range and daring. Its audience should include not only Latin Americanists, but students of social theory and of development in general."-Charles Tilly, Columbia University
"The Other Mirror succeeds in providing a highly stimulating account of the dialectics between general theory and history. It will have a much-needed positive impact on Latin American studies and its place in general social theory."-Mauricio A. Font, The Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York
Book Information
ISBN 9780691050171
Author Miguel Angel Centeno
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 539g