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The Reinvention of Mexico: National Ideology in a Neoliberal Era
Contributor(s): O'Toole, Gavin (Author)

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 ISBN: 1846314852     ISBN-13: 9781846314858
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
OUR PRICE: $157.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America - Central America
- History | Latin America - Mexico
Dewey: 320.54
LCCN: 2013496844
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" L (1.30 lbs) 302 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Cultural Region - Mexican
Features: Bibliography, Index
Review Citations: Choice 08/01/2011
 
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Publisher Description:
The Reinvention of Mexico explores the ideological conflict between neoliberalism and nationalism that has been at the core of economic and political developments in Latin America since the mid-1980s. It focuses on Mexico, which offers a unique opportunity to study one of the ruptures in
20th-century political thought that has come to define an era of unprecedented globalization.

The book examines how neoliberals dismantling the statist economy in Mexico under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-94) confronted the dominant, official ideology upon which the country's development had hitherto been based: revolutionary nationalism. It also considers how intellectuals and
the main political forces to the left and right of the PRI grappled with the issues generated by the climate of market reform, in a period when there appeared to be few ideological alternatives to it, and the broader effort to reconcile economic liberalism with revolutionary nationalism that Salinas
was attempting.

Showing that the case of Mexico during the 1990s had important implications for the study of nationalism, the book offers timely insights into national responses to globalization and the form taken by debates about the most appropriate vision of political economy in Latin America. The highly
contested result of Mexico's 2006 election demonstrated the extent to which the fateful ideological conflict between neoliberalism and nationalism remains unresolved.
 
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