Democracy and Development in Latin America: Economics, Politics and Religion in the Post-War PeriodTemple University Press, 1992 M12 4 - 288 pages Soloway (history, U. of N. Carolina) unravels the development and context of the eugenics movement which promoted a theory of biosocial engineering through selective reproduction during the early years of the 20th century. He connects the rise of the movement to anxieties about the size and social composition of the population and discusses the movement's special relevance as progenitor of more recent ideas of sociobiological engineering. Lehmann (development studies, Cambridge Univ.) presents an intellectual history of Latin America over the past 40 years, focusing on Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. He integrates three strains of development: the intellectual currents of social science, the renovation of Catholic thought and practice, and the emergence of popular social movements. Accessible to non-specialists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
In Search of a Development Project of Our Own Social | 1 |
From Dependency to Democracy | 33 |
The ideological moment of the early 1970s | 48 |
Postmarxism | 59 |
Neoconservative politics and neoliberal economics | 76 |
Conclusion | 85 |
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