The Other Mirror : : Grand Theory through the Lens of Latin America / / ed. by Fernando López-Alves, Miguel Angel Centeno.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adelman, Jeremy,; Angel Centeno, Miguel,; Dominguez, Jorge I.,; Gootenberg, Paul,; Knight, Alan,; Levine, Robert M.,; Lomnitz, Claudio,; Lopez-Alves, Fernando,; Markoff, John,; Montecinos, Veronica,; Samuel Valenzuela, J.,; Topik, Steven,
• HerausgeberIn: Centeno, Miguel Angel,; López-Alves, Fernando,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

If social science's "cultural turn" has taught us anything, it is that knowledge is constrained by the time and place in which it is produced. In response, scholars have begun to reassess social theory from the standpoints of groups and places outside of the European context upon whic...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INTRODUCTION
• PART I: CREATING AN ECONOMY
• Chapter One INSTITUTIONS, PROPERTY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA
• Chapter Two HIJOS OF DR. GERSCHENKRON: "LATECOMER" CONCEPTIONS IN LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY
• Chapter Three KARL POLANYI AND THE CREATION OF THE "MARKET SOCIETY"
• Chapter Four FROM THE POWER OF ECONOMIC IDEAS TO THE POWER OF ECONOMISTS
• PART II THE STATE AND DEMOCRACY
• Chapter Five THE TRANSATLANTIC BRIDGE: MIRRORS, CHARLES TILLY, AND STATE FORMATION IN THE RIVER PLATE
• Chapter Six THE MODERN MEXICAN STATE: THEORY AND PRACTICE
• Chapter Seven SAMUEL HUNTINGTON AND THE LATIN AMERICAN STATE
• Chapter Eight CLASS RELATIONS AND DEMOCRATIZATION
• PART III LIVING AND BELONGING
• Chapter Nine THE DISCIPLINARY SOCIETY IN LATIN AMERICA
• Chapter Ten MICHEL DE CERTEAU AND LATIN AMERICA
• Chapter Eleven NATIONALISM AS A PRACTICAL SYSTEM
• INDEX