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2000 · rif. 9134 — Bogot Colombia: Villegas Editores 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Large format cloth hardcover 343 pages illustrated throughout glossy paper NOT ex-library. Weight over 3kg please note: extra shipping will be required. Light handling wear only. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text free of inscriptions and stamps firmly bound. Bright untorn dust jacket shows shelfwear. -- Mestizo America offers a general panorama of what it calls Our America that is Latin America as seen by one of its outstanding writers. It provides detailed analysis of its development transformations history and defining social forces. But it is also the evocation of a utopia of the possibility of creating a supra-national society that ignores the restrictions of frontiers and thanks to its millenary traditions creates a common space with a privileged identity that may change the future of the continent. A shared heritage historical links and a pat that creates solidarity among its nations are the keys to this visionary ideal. Original and wide-ranging poetical yet scrupulously accurate the book demonstrates with a wealth of detail that the countries of Latin America have a common identity strong enough to redefine the destiny of the region above all because they share a profound and all-embracing culture whose influence is now being felt throughout the world. This culture couold be the basis for creating a coordinated and balanced economic community a federated political body and a commonwealth of nations with a dynamic social interchange. The great challenge for the next century argues the author revolves around getting the continent to formulate and establish a political and economic order that is in harmony with the global trends of the modern world. And while the many provinces of Latin America should not lose sight of their peoples' roots and local cultures the continent must also create optimum strategies for the development of its competitiveness an indispensable condition for achieving prosperity in a world heading towards integration--an integration that not only requires institutional reforms but also a commitment to Latin American culture as a whole. This book approaches its subject matter from different angles but all of them converge on a single purpose: to create and strengthen our awareness of the possibilities of a Latin America that is mestizo that is "ours." It does this through a rigorous and panoramic description of the history of Latin America which not only covers politics and economics but also its natural setting and geography literature and art social and intellectual movements ethnic groups and local traditions as well as the achievements of its great men. From the multiple examples given by the author it is easy to understand that the conditions which may lead to the unification of Latin America do exist and reflect its potential and wealth: there is a new awareness that its inhabitants belong to an authentic world. One of the key arguments developed in the final chapter is that any unification of Latin America must be based on an equilibrium between material prosperity and humanism which in turn depends on obtaining a higher level of education and greater degree of democracy for its people as well as a recognition of their innate dignity. Villegas Editores hardcover