Europe and Latin America - Looking at Each Other?

Europeans and Latin Americans share a long history of mutual engagement. Bringing together scholars from Europe, Latin America and the USA, this volume offers insights that draw on divers methodologies and help to reassess European and Latin American mutual perceptions. Authors write about such topics like the national and territorial Identities, Europeans and the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America, Anglo-Mexican relations and perceptions, culture of football, modernization, foreign consultants, adaptation of former hegemonic parties in Eastern Europe and Mexico, human rights legacies of Pinochet's rule, political assessment of the past in Poland, democracy, the European and Latin American integration projects.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction

Ryszard Stemplowski  

• Contributors     

• National and Territorial Identities in Contemporary Latin America and Europe 

Carlos Escudé

• Europeans and the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America

Aleksander Posern-Zieliński        

• Anglo-Mexican Relations and Perceptions in the 19th and 20th Centuries 

Alan Knight

• The Culture of Football: Brazil and Europe   

Luiz Carlos Ribeiro      

• Modernisation in Europe and Latin America 

Colin M. Lewis 

• Perception Matters: Foreign Consultants in Latin America and Europe

Lawrence S. Graham

• The Adaptation of Former Hegemonic Parties in Eastern Europe and Mexico   

Ericka López Godoy

• The Human Rights Legacies of Pinochet’s Rule 

Patricio Valdivieso

• Political Assessment of the Past in Poland

Antoni Dudek

• Democracy in Latin America: Survival or Consolidation?          

Peter H. Smith

• The Democratization of Europe            

Jacek Kurczewski  

• The European and Latin American

Karl Buck

• Integration Projects      

COMMENTARIES

• Looking at Each Other by Beata Wojna              

• Are They Still Looking at Each Other? by Lubomir W. Zyblikiewicz       

• A Synthesis is Still Before Us by Hieronim Kubiak       

• On the Applicability of Lessons by Leszek Jesień            

Index of Geographical Names  

Index of Personal Names