When Was Latin America Modern?

1. Introduction
Nicola Miller

Part I. Views from the Historical and Social Sciences

2. Geographies of Modernity in Latin America: Uneven and Contested Development
Sarah A. Radcliffe

3. Modernity and Tradition: Shifting Boundaries, Shifting Contexts
Peter Wade

4. Mid-Nineteenth-Century Modernities in the Hispanic World
Guy Thomson

5. When Was Latin America Modern? A Historian’s Response
Alan Knight

Part II. Views from Literary and Cultural Studies

6. When Was Peru Modern? On Declarations of Modernity in Peru
William Rowe

7. Belatedness as Critical Project: Machado de Assis and the Author as Plagiarist
João Cezar Castro Rocha

8. Cuban Cinema: A Long Journey toward the Light
Julio García Espinosa

9. Culture and Communication in Inter-American Relations: The Current State of an Asymmetric Debate
Néstor García Canclini

10. Conclusion: When Was Latin America Modern?
Laurence Whitehead

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Structural Geology, Latin American Politics, Latin American Culture, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology