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Review / Reseña: Thomas Ward. The Formation of Latin American Nations: From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity. 2018. Cover

Review / Reseña: Thomas Ward. The Formation of Latin American Nations: From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity. 2018.

Open Access
|Dec 2021

Abstract

In The Formation of Latin American Nations, Thomas Ward embarks on a necessary journey to the pre-Hispanic origins of Latin America nations. With a masterfully employed decolonial approach, Ward studies in detail the fundamental ingredients of Mesoamerican and Andean cultures from late antiquity until early modernity. The author argues that these cultures and their sociopolitical organizations reveal a pre-Enlightenment concept of nation that was as complex as its contemporary counterpart across the Atlantic.

 

En The Formation of Latin American Nations, Thomas Ward se embarca en un viaje necesario a los orígenes prehispánicos de las naciones de América Latina. Con un enfoque decolonial magistralmente empleado, Ward estudia en detalle los ingredientes fundamentales de las culturas mesoamericanas y andinas desde la antigüedad tardía hasta la temprana modernidad. El autor argumenta que estas culturas y sus organizaciones sociopolíticas revelan un concepto de la nación anterior al de la Ilustración y tan complejo como su contraparte contemporánea al otro lado del Atlántico.

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23870/marlas.376 | Journal eISSN: 2474-9621
Language: English
Page range: 184 - 187
Published on: Dec 16, 2021
Published by: Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies and Kean University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2021 Alexander Marino Cárdenas, published by Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies and Kean University
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