Self-made in America by John Mccormack

Self-made in America by John Mccormack

Embers of the Past is a powerful critique of historicism and modernity. Javier Sanjines C. analyzes the conflict between the cultures and movements of indigenous peoples and attention to the modern nation-state in its contemporary Latin American manifestations. He contends that indigenous movements have introduced doubt into the linear course of modernity, reopening the gap between the symbolic and the real. Addressing this rupture, Sanjines argues that scholars must rethink their temporal categories. Toward that end, he engages with recent events in Latin America, particularly in Bolivia, and with Latin American intellectuals, as well as European thinkers disenchanted with modernity. Sanjines dissects the concepts of the homogeneous nation and linear time, and insists on the need to reclaim the indigenous subjectivities still labeled premodern and excluded from the production, distribution, and organization of knowledge.

Once a New York City cop, John McCormack made his first million on Wall Street in his twenties, and lost it before he was thirty. He went to work for--and learned from--savvy businessmen who had made it from the ground up. Once a New York City cop,

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ISBN 13	9780201550993
ISBN 10	0201550997
Title	Self-made in America
Author	John Mccormack
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Year published	1991-01-01
Number of pages	226
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