Pitt Latin American Series

Landlord And Peasant In The Making Of

Evelyne Huber/Safford, Frank Safford, Evelyne Huber/Safford, Evelyne Huber, Frank R. Safford

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9780822974727
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface and Acknowldegments
• Inroduction
• Landlord and Campesino in the Chilean Road to Democracy
• The Buenos Aires Landed Class and the Shape of Argentine Politics (1820-1930)
• Authoritarianism, Political Culture, and the Formation of the State: Landowners, Agrarian Movements, and the Making of National Politics in Ninetenth-Century Mexico and Peru
• Agrarian Systems and the State: The Case of Columbia
• Lord and Peasant in the Making of Modern Central America
• Applying Moore's Model to Latin America: Some Historians' Observations
• Conclusion: Agrarian Structure and Political Power in Comparative Perspective
• Notes on Contributors
• Index