With Brazil hosting the FIFA World Cup this summer and the Olympic Games in 2016, all eyes are on Latin America. But what vision of these countries will we be given? Will our airwaves be full of cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and...
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With Brazil hosting the FIFA World Cup this summer and the Olympic Games in 2016, all eyes are on Latin America. But what vision of these countries will we be given? Will our airwaves be full of cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and inaccurate interpretations of the region's position in the world? In From Frontiers to Football, Matthew Brown provides a much-needed historical analysis to rebut misconceptions about Latin America's past while giving readers the tools with which to understand the region's complex present. Inhaltsverzeichnis: Goodbye, Colonial Worlds: Independence -- Building Nations, Looking for Models -- Raw Materials, Raw Wounds -- New Exchanges, New Markets -- Beneath a New Empire -- Latin America in the Cold War -- Violence and Exoticism -- Unleashed from Empire?
