Carlos Forment: 3 books
by Carlos Forment
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 17, 2015
En 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville viajó a los Estados Unidos para estudiar el sistema penitenciario norteamericano y durante nueve meses observó la sociedad, la política y la economía de ese país. Esa visita dio lugar a La democracia en América, un análisis sobre la democracia representativa y...
Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900
Volume 1, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Carlos Forment's aim in this highly ambitious work is to write the book that Tocqueville would have written had he traveled to Latin America instead of the United States. Drawing on an astonishing level of research, Forment pored over countless newspapers, partisan pamphlets, tabloids, journals, private...
The Postcolonial Contemporary
Political Imaginaries for the Global Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Contributors come from a number of disciplines: literature, anthropology, geography, sociology, and history.