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...Victor C. Dahl Aparicio Saravia: Las últimas patriadas . By Mena Segarra C. Enrique . Montevideo , 1977 . Ediciones de la Banda Oriental . Illustrations. Bibliography . Pp. 190 . Paper. Batlie: Democracia y reforma del estado . By Hierro Luis Antonio . Montevideo...

... classes and of British capital. Aparicio Saravia’s revolutions do not fit into this explanatory framework and Méndez Vives explains them as the exception which proves the rule. Neither does the election of José Batlie y Ordóñez as President of the republic in 1903, which Méndez Vives simply narrates...

... politics. This less-than-effective substitute had developed because the Colorado-led constitutional government never had been strong enough to overcome on the battlefield the subversive activities of the Blanco or Nacional party, which really wanted to maintain a state within a state. Batlie temporized...

... and that this was reflected in the political crisis of 1913 over Batlie’s plan for a plural executive. Explanations of Uruguay based on anti-Batllista large-scale cattle ranchers dominating middle-class sheep farmers are sure to enter the literature and while full judgment of this aspect of Barrán and Nahum’s analysis...

... José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguay’s central political figure until his death in 1929 and founder of the Colorado Batllista party (which governed the country after World War II), in the last three volumes of the Historia rural. Their argument was that Batlie’s concrete achievements were far less impressive...

... of the great José Batlie y Ordóñez on the presidency (1903-1907, 1911-1915), the author turns to a description and analysis of political parties, elections, interest groups, and public administration. Then, after a survey of the strengths and weaknesses of the Uruguayan economic system, with its social welfare...

... the treatment of post-independence multinational histories through case studies which illuminate thematic problems. Early imperial Brazil, for example, is highlighted in the “Transfer and Legitimization of Power”; Uruguay under Batlie illustrates “The Middle Sectors in Politics”; and Guatemala under Arbenz...

... officials, the president’s widow left the country. She died in Buenos Aires in 1914. As for the assassin, Arredondo, President Batlie in 1902 named him to a minor customs office position, and his appointment could be construed as a reward for killing Idiarte Borda. The Montevideo city government proposed...

..., and forward-looking by nature, could not fail to be influenced by the batllista spirit. In 1907 Claudio Williman succeeded to the presidency and vowed to continue Batlie’s progressive program. In particular Williman promised to expand and improve Uruguay’s educational system. 23 Chile, like Argentina...

... Among Political Elites , 1904-1955 (Madison, 1974), Labyrinths of Power: Political Recruitment in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Princeton, 1979); Milton I. Vanger, José Batlie y Ordóñez of Uruguay: The Creator of His Times , 1902-1907 (Cambridge, 1963), The Model Country: José Batlle y Ordóñez...