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
by Ryszard Stemplowski
Contributors
Carlos Escudé
National and Territorial Identities in Contemporary Latin America and Europe
Aleksander Posern-Zieliński
Europeans and the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America
Alan Knight
Anglo-Mexican Relations and Perceptions in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Luiz Carlos Ribeiro
The Culture of Football: Brazil and Europe
Colin M. Lewis
Modernisation in Europe and Latin America
Lawrence S. Graham
Perception Matters: Foreign Consultants in Latin America and Europe
Ericka López Godoy
The Adaptation of Former Hegemonic Parties in Eastern Europe and Mexico
Patricio Valdivieso
The Human Rights Legacies of Pinochet’s Rule
Antoni Dudek
Political Assessment of the Past in Poland
Peter H. Smith
Democracy in Latin America: Survival or Consolidation?
Jacek Kurczewski
The Democratization of Europe
Karl Buck
The European and Latin American
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