Agrarian Structure Political Power

by Huber, Evelyne; Safford, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780822955641
• ISBN10: 0822955644
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

The troubled history of democracy in Latin America has been the subject of much scholarly commentary. This volume breaks new ground by systematically exploring the linkages among the historical legacies of large landholding patterns, agrarian class relations, and authoritarian versus democratic trajectories in Latin American countries. The essays address questions about the importance of large landownders for the national economy, the labor needs and labor relations of these landowners, attempts of landowners to enlist the support of the state to control labor, and the democratic forms of rule in the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Evelyne Huber is Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science and chair of the department of political science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Frank Safford is professor of history at Northwestern University.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	3	(18)
Evelyne Huber
Landlord and Campesino in the Chilean Road to Democracy	21	(18)
Arnold J. Bauer
The Buenos Aires Landed Class and the Shape of Argentine Politics (1820-1930)	39	(28)
Tulio Halperin Donghi
Authoritarianism, Political Culture, and the Formation of the State: Landowners, Agrarian Movements, and the Making of National Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico and Peru	67	(44)
Florencia E. Mallon
Agrarian Systems and the State: The Case of Colombia	111	(40)
Frank Safford
Lord and Peasant in the Making of Modern Central America	151	(26)
Lowell Gudmundson
Applying Moore's Model to Latin America: Some Historians' Observations	177	(6)
Frank Safford
Conclusion: Agrarian Structure and Political Power in Comparative Perspective	183	(50)
Evelyne Huber
John D. Stephens
Notes on Contributors	233	(2)
Index	235