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The other mirror : grand theory through the lens of Latin America / Miguel Angel Centeno and Fernando López-Alves, editors.

Contributor(s): Centeno, Miguel Angel, 1957- | López-Alves, Fernando
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: viii, 372 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0691050171 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780691050171 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Social sciences -- Latin America -- Philosophy | Social sciences -- Philosophy | Latin America -- Politics and government | Latin America -- Economic conditionsDDC classification: 300/.98 LOC classification: H53.L3 | O84 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Institutions, property, and economic development in Latin America / Jeremy Adelman -- Hijos of Dr. Gerschenkron : "latecomer" conceptions in Latin American economic history / Paul Gootenberg -- Karl Polanyi and the creation of the "market society" / Steven Topik -- From the power of economic ideas to the power of economists / Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff -- The transatlantic bridge : mirrors, Charles Tilly, and state formation in the river plate / Fernando López-Alves -- The modern Mexican state : theory and practice / Alan Knight -- Samuel Huntingdon and the Latin American state / Jorge I. Domínguez -- Class relations and democratization : a reassessment of Barrington Moore's model / J. Samuel Valenzuela -- The disciplinary society in Latin America / Miguel Angel Centeno -- Michel de Certeau and Latin America / Robert M. Levine -- Nationalism as a practical system : Benedict Anderson's theory of nationalism from the vantage point of Spanish America / Claudio Lomnitz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Institutions, property, and economic development in Latin America / Jeremy Adelman -- Hijos of Dr. Gerschenkron : "latecomer" conceptions in Latin American economic history / Paul Gootenberg -- Karl Polanyi and the creation of the "market society" / Steven Topik -- From the power of economic ideas to the power of economists / Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff -- The transatlantic bridge : mirrors, Charles Tilly, and state formation in the river plate / Fernando López-Alves -- The modern Mexican state : theory and practice / Alan Knight -- Samuel Huntingdon and the Latin American state / Jorge I. Domínguez -- Class relations and democratization : a reassessment of Barrington Moore's model / J. Samuel Valenzuela -- The disciplinary society in Latin America / Miguel Angel Centeno -- Michel de Certeau and Latin America / Robert M. Levine -- Nationalism as a practical system : Benedict Anderson's theory of nationalism from the vantage point of Spanish America / Claudio Lomnitz.

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