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...Joel Horowitz The Politics of National Capitalism: Peronism and the Argentine Bourgeoisie, 1946 – 1976 . By Brennan James P. Rougier Marcelo . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2009 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxiii , 221 pp. Cloth , $60.00...

... of the book, “the corporate national bourgeoisie,” is fuzzy. Becker calls it a dominant class without specifying what this means. The relationship among this class, the state, and transnational capital remains ambivalent, even after 342 pages. Second, the concept of “bonanza development” needs more...

... bourgeoisie 1 traditionally has been considered minimal. This is especially true of medieval Castile, which has been depicted as a “society organized for war”: a society of farmers and stock raisers ever ready for colonizing and military activities. 2 Complementarily, medieval Castilians have been...

... has naturally been linked to social class. In the conventional interpretation, technological change and industrial organization created an accompanying bourgeoisie, but others have noticed that in some cases an urban middle class preceded industry and, indeed, brought it into existence. It is easier...

...Heather Fowler Salamini The Rancheros of Pisaflores: The History of a Peasant Bourgeoisie in Twentieth-Century Mexico . By Schryer Frans J. . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1980 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 210...

..., mobilizing capital, environmental technology, and the power of the state to challenge the rising hegemony of US interests in Peru's copper corridor. Unlike the classic literature on nineteenth-century mining in Peru, which has presented Peruvian mineowners as a struggling bourgeoisie, this study focuses...

... in the history of international capitalism (p. 23). During the nineteenth century, Latin America was dominated by the “oligarchic state,” a regime controlled by the agrarian and mining bourgeoisie. These elites were dependent upon foreign imperialism (British and later the United States). At this stage...

..., has written a brilliant sociological analysis of the evolution of capitalism and the class structure in Brazil. The book, according to the author, is an intellectual answer to the political structure set up in 1964 by the Brazilian military. Part I, titled the “Origins of the Bourgeoisie...

... as a whole, while, on the other hand, they append sections that are peripheral or repetitive. For example, the discussion of the works of Pablo González Casanova, José Luis Imaz, and Aníbal Quijano only reiterates previous analyses of the role of dual societies, national bourgeoisie, and ruling classes...

... undoubtedly limited until well into the twentieth century. Sodré completes his work by studying the emerging influence of the local industrial bourgeoisie in the twentieth century. This influence grew rapidly through the First World War, declined in the twenties, and surged forward again in the thirties...

... commercial activities. Diversification determined the political and economic strategies that the coffee interests pursued in the Old Republic. Moving to another example, Perissinotto asserts that the Funding Loan clearly did benefit the coffee bourgeoisie because the stronger milreis made imported...

... in heavy-handed fashion to Mexican ideas (the Spanish edition of Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia was published in Mexico in 1941). Positivism, argues Zea, flourished in Mexico because the bourgeoisie, seeking political and economic order after the great upheaval of the Reforma , found in it a convenient...

... to succeed. This unity was forged as the struggle developed until with the “collapse of the bourgeoisie” the Jacobins “seized the proffered hand of the abused Communists and scrambled to the solid ground of the proletariat and socialism.” If unity between the Communists was forged in the struggle against...

...). Machado’s works seem to illustrate the rule that a rising bourgeoisie is less interesting than a declining aristocracy, but Faoro uses Machado to study both groups and their interactions in the Second Empire. Faoro associates the former with classe (social class) and the latter with estamento , which...

... division of labor as an exporter of primary goods. Its agrarian bourgeoisie became tightly linked to coffee production, and a substantial portion of the production came from small and medium-sized farms. In contrast to what happened in some other Central American countries, foreign capital never became...

... heterogeneous society as industrialization proceeds, insufficient consciousness of its class interests by the national bourgeoisie, and external interference by the United States. The state-capitalist model would be inadequate also because the managerial and technical sectors of the middle class have...

... of the seventeenth century. One movement had its roots in the grievances of the disenchanted Catalan aristocracy and bourgeoisie. These two classes, frustrated in their quest for posts at the Spanish royal court, also resented the king’s penchant for appointing Castilians or Catalan puppets to high political...

... of the nineteenth century, the title and the introduction of the book defend the concept of bourgeoisie . Carmen Mc Evoy makes the point that bourgeoisie is not only an economic concept but also a cultural one. From a cultural point of view, she argues, a bourgeoisie certainly existed in nineteenth-century Peru...

... the writers have given principal attention. According to Evans, Allende’s popular front strategy failed because of its reliance on two major false assumptions: 1) a truly nationalist bourgeoisie can exist in a colonial world; 2) the bourgeoisie will remain bound by the rules of bourgeoisie democracy even when...

... of business. When it does, on occasion, address entrepreneurial history, the book suffers from a certain glibness. It castigates the Argentine bourgeoisie for failing to take advantage of a lost opportunity of immediate postwar economic prosperity without analyzing why (if true) it failed to do so. Her book...