Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares
Miguel Lopez-Lozano
Purdue University Press, 2007
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Traces the history of utopian representations of the Americas, first on the part of the colonizers, who idealized the New World as an earthly paradise, and later by Latin American modernizing elites, who imagined Western industrialization, cosmopolitanism and consumption as a utopian dream for their independent societies.
- ISBN-13
- 9781557534842
- ISBN-10
- 1557534845
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Year
- 2007
- Publication date
- 2007-12-01
- Pages
- 304
- Dimensions
- 227x154x18
- Weight
- 494