<i>The Idea of Latin America</i> is a geo-political manifesto which insists on the need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.<br><ul><br><li>Charts the history of the concept of Latin America from its emergence in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century through various permutations to the present day. <br><li>Asks what is at stake in the survival of an idea which subdivides the Americas. <br><li>Reinstates the indigenous peoples and migrations excluded by the image of a homogenous Latin America with defined borders. <br><li>Insists on the pressing need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.</li></ul>