What If Latin America Ruled the World?: How the South Will Take the North Through the 21st Century - Softcover

Guardiola-rivera, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608193365 ISBN 13: 9781608193363

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2013

Synopsis

For most Westerners, Latin America is the junior partner of the New World, an underdeveloped sibling to the United States and Canada. In his provocative and powerful book, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera shows how Latin America and its people are making their presence felt across the world by upsetting long-standing political and economic assumptions and orthodoxies. The United States will still occupy center stage in the West for the time being, but few observers have taken notice of the rapid growth of Spanish language and culture within the United States-which is quietly and quickly becoming part of Latin America in its own way. Guardiola-Rivera's stimulating work is equally a hidden history of the modern world (the silver peso was the first global currency) and a piercing look at the future. Latin America has been in the vanguard of opposition to globalization, and its politics are imaginative, innovative, and unlike those anywhere else in the world. For anyone interested in the future of the Western Hemisphere or the world economy, What if Latin America Ruled the World? is a must-read

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About the Author

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera teaches international law and international affairs at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has served as an aide to the Colombian Congress and as a consultant to the United Nations in South America. He has lectured in law, philosphy, and politics on three continents. He lives in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608193365
• ISBN 13: 9781608193363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 451