...Frederick B. Pike The Centralist Tradition of Latin America . By Véliz Claudio . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1980 . Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 355 . Cloth. $22.50 . Paper. $9.95 . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Using Isaiah Berlin’s much...

... be to create not so much a perfect union as a workable one. The 20 essays in this volume, by 18 authors, cover the individual stories of 13 states during these years, as well as broader topics such as the church, the central treasury, territorial organization, and the centralist congresses. Two of the essays...

... by integrating this regionally complex state—with its rich oil resources, prosperous export agriculture, and strategic ports—into Mexican national history. He takes a revisionist approach, framed within a centralist-federalism paradigm, to unravel the unfolding political struggles between the capital...

... how political and institutional innovations in the early nineteenth century changed rural politics. The centralists’ subsequent success in national politics, beginning in the mid-1830s, changed the local balance of power and led to agrarian violence. Policies of the national government widened...

...Blair P. Turner The outcome of the campaign is well known: the centralists won and went on to build the economic miracle of late nineteenth-century Argentina. This book, however, yields more insight into the complexities and nuances of the federalist-centralist struggle, and the difficulties...

...). Their struggle for autonomy became intertwined with the liberal-conservative and federalist-centralist debates that wracked the Central American federation during the first three decades of national independence. It ultimately led to the secession of Los Altos from Guatemala to form the sixth state of the United...

..., of the federalist-centralist rivalry that became so vicious and came to affect Berlandier’s life. After all, Berlandier owed his appointment to Lucas Alamán, the intellectual leader of the centralist faction, and participated in the Boundary Commission alongside General Mier y Terán, who ultimately recommended...

...-centralist struggles of 1829, 1832, and 1834–35; (3) the period of “profound disillusionment” (1836– 47) coincides with the loss of Texas, the French invasion, and the failure of the centralist republic to end political revolts, military pronunciamientos , and economic decline; and (4) “a final stage...

... identified nefarious conservative conspiracies designed to restore Spanish rule. In the 1830s and 1840s, the aceites described themselves as centralists, and the vinagres first as federalists and later as either moderate or radical liberals. However, Guardino cautions against the view that the earlier...

... Press , 2023 . Plates. Maps. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xii, 168 pp. Cloth, $60.00 . Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Book Reviews / Eighteenth Nineteenth Centuries 161 individual states and regions became disenchanted with centralist institutions...

... should be read as a companion volume to Michael P. Costeloe’s Central Republic in Mexico, 1835–1846: “Hombres de Bien” in the Age of Santa Anna (1993). Whereas Costeloe’s work is a comprehensive account of the centralist decade, Sordo Cedeño’s study examines the role of Mexico’s national congresses...

... geography is not a strong orientation of Argentine geographers. The cuestión capital plagued Argentina during most of the nineteenth century insofar as it expressed the fundamental problems of resource allocation, of economic distributions, of federalist versus centralist governance. The work begins...

... The Centralist Tradition of Latin America (Princeton Univ. Press, 1980). On the surface, the two works aver incompatible premises, but a deeper reading of the texts suggests that we have here a paradox and not a contradiction (Waldmann himself notes this contrast, pp. 14–15). Véliz correctly notes that Latin...

... was progressively shut out of the centralist clique that took over in 1837. With the price of raw cotton soaring, operations at La Constancia were reduced to about 25 percent of capacity. Antuñano could hardly afford to pay his workers (some 300 of them), let alone finance the purchase of politically connected...

... Misantla residents' passive resistance to military recruitment—and interpret it as a rejection of liberal state formation—because he focuses on the centralist years between 1835 and 1846, when recruitment was carried out by a lottery system. But the liberal credentials of Mexico's centralist governments...

... of Ferdinand VII, to fight centralist tendencies within the Central American republic, and to back the Mexican federalist constitutions of 1824 and 1857. Although Voekel must be commended for impressive research and for taking the religious dimension of Hispanic liberalism seriously, her book would have...

..., federalist tradition in some places and to have implanted a strongly executive, centralist pattern in others. In Peru, late to commit to independence, convention has it that executive preponderance was established quickly, and power-sharing between the center and the provinces was swept aside...

... for the next five years. Always a minority party in Minas Gerais, the Republicans in 1889 counted only 6,000 adherents. Even these scanty numbers were weakened by divisions within the ranks, centralists vs. federalists, idealists vs. opportunists, etc. The principal contribution of this monograph...

... contribution to this volume. To him San Martín was a centralist and a republican at heart, a friend of the Negro slave and the common man, and one who was ideologically closer to the morenistas than to the Porteños or provincial conservatives. Benito Marianetti recounts the role of Tomás Godoy Cruz...

... as the Federal War, pitted federalists against centralists. In this very useful work on the antecedents to that conflict, Matthews asserts that prior to the war federalism was not a major issue and that no sustained party or movement had adopted it as its ideology. Although several groups had proposed federalist...