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"This book investigates efforts to promote the political and economic unification of Latin America. The author argues that the political unification of Latin America has been stymied by the political class, but that this trend is currently being reversed. The Common Market of the South (MERCOSU...
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| Published: |
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Jefferson, North Carolina : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This book investigates efforts to promote the political and economic unification of Latin America. The author argues that the political unification of Latin America has been stymied by the political class, but that this trend is currently being reversed. The Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) is presently accomplishing this task"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 297 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-293) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780786476251 (softcover : alkaline paper) : 0786476257 (softcover : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | F1410 |
| CLC: | D773.0 |
| Call Number: | D773.0/R621 |
| Contents: | Impediments to political union in Latin America -- Revolution, independence and early initiatives for political union -- The first diplomatic effort : the Panama Congress -- Transfer to Tacubaya and the defeat of the Treaty of Confederation -- Other state-directed initiatives in the nineteenth century -- Idealists take the initiative -- Intellectual and political partisans of the twentieth century -- 1948/1960 : the age of the ECLA and the technocrats -- The age of LAFTA -- The United States and Latin American integration -- MERCOSUR. |