Part 1. Argentina -- The book and publishing in Argentina. Books for everyone and the Hispanic American model -- Translating the nation. Gregorio Weinberg and the rationalism of Argentinean past -- Part 2. Mexico -- Latin America as a civilizing meridian. Fondo de Cultura Económica and the Tierra Firme series -- Publishing and politics. Cold War in Latin American culture in the sixties -- Part 3. Brazil -- Genesis of the national publishing market: a miracle? -- The house and the enterprise. José Olympio and the evolution of publishing in Brazil -- Part 4. Transnational perspectives -- The world as a fair. Publishing in(ter)dependencies at the Frankfurt Fair -- The translation of social and human sciences books between France and Argentina as an unequal exchange.

"This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen through a symbolic good and a practice - the book, and the act of publication - two elements that have had an irrefutable power in shaping the modern world. The volume combines multiple theoretical approaches and empirical landscapes with the aim to comprehend how Latin American publishers became the protagonists of a symbolic unification of their continent from the 1930s through the 1970s. The intersection of cultural, political and economic themes, as well as the style of writing, makes this book an interest to a wide reading public with historical and sociological sensitivity and global cultural curiosity"--

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