Download or read book The Role of the Americas in History written by Leopoldo Zea and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-time translation makes available to English-speaking readers a seminal essay in Latin American thought by one of Latin America's leading intellectuals. Originally published in Mexico in 1957, The Role of the Americas in History explores the meaning of the history of the Americas in relation to universal history. Amy A. Oliver's introduction provides an excellent overview of such major themes in Zea's thought as marginality, humanism, Catholicism and Protestantism, philosophy of history, and liberation.