1. Placing Latin America -- 2. Conquest to Modernity (1510-1910) -- 3. Nation-Making (1910-1964) -- 4. Hegemony Struggles (1959-1976) -- 5. Market Hegemony (1973-2001) -- 6. Social Counter-movement (1998-2012) -- 7. Globalization Within (1510-2010)
Summary
Latin America is assuming an increasingly important position on the world stage with its heterodox economic policies and bold political experiments attracting world-wide attention in an era characterized by a general crisis of perspectives. Since European colonization from 1500 onwards, the region has played a key role in the modernization and enrichment of Europe and the West. Today, the West is in crisis and the whole Enlightenment discourse is thrown into question. Is it possible that Latin America now shows the West where it is heading? With complex, dynamic, conflictual, but, above all, original processes of development - and with new visions of social transformation and new constructions of hegemony - the region offers a fascinating laboratory for the rest of the world and, maybe, a mirror of the future
