

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN: 1533-6247|11|4|517-539
ISSN: 0003-1615
Source: The Americas, Vol.11, Iss.4, 1955-04, pp. : 517-539
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Abstract
Latin americanists have in recent years become increasingly concerned with constructing the basis for a unified history of Latin America. Frequently this enterprise leads them to contemplate the even larger design of a history of the Americas. While the New World may still be, in Hegel’s words, “a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of old Europe,” it is now recognized as having an independent heritage; its history is no longer experienced as “only an echo of the Old World.”
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