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...Ralph Lee Woodward, JR. Power in Transition: The Rise of Guatemala’s Industrial Oligarchy, 1871-1994 . By Dosal Paul J. . Westport : Praeger , 1995 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 223 pp. Cloth . $59.95 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997...

...Dain Borges Politics and Parentela in Paraíba: A Case Study of Family-Based Oligarchy in Brazil . By Lewin Linda . Princeton ; Princeton University Press . 1987 . Notes. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x.xiii , 497 . Cloth...

...Roger Hamburg Nationalists without Nations. The Oligarchy Versus the People in Latin America . By Alba Víctor . New York , 1968 . Frederick A. Praeger . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. vii , 248 . $7.00 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Víctor...

...Sandra C. Mendiola García The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880–1970 . By Gilbert Dennis . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2017 . Photographs. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 293 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke...

...Linda Lewin Bahia in the First Brazilian Republic: Coronelismo and Oligarchies, 1889-1934 . By Pang Eul-Soo . Gainesville , 1979 . University Presses of Florida . Illustrations. Tables. Glossary. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 256 . Cloth. $14.75...

... representation of Peru’s popular classes is adequate. Why did a majority of voters in 1931 choose not to vote for either group? Surely these 160,000 voters cannot be dismissed as lackeys of the oligarchy simply because they voted for the latter’s favored candidate, Sánchez Cerro. It appears that Burga and Flores...

... Colombia’s oligarchy and its two-party political system. By using previously unexamined letters written by Gaitán and his followers, as well as interviews and Gaitanista press, Green traces the historical and political conditions that gave rise to Gaitanismo as a left-liberal mobilization. Green contends...

... . Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 At the very end of his study of the merger of the urban oligarchy and traditional nobility in early modern Barcelona, James Amelang remarks that “the historical developments treated in this book are to a certain degree familiar to all students of the period...

... This book is a study of the ideology of the Paulista oligarchy from 1926 to 1932, that is, from the founding of the Partido Democrático and Vargas’s appointment as finance minister under Washington Luís to the eve of the “Constitutionalist Revolution,” which pitted São Paulo against the Vargas dictatorship...

...Joseph L. Arbena The book suffers from wordiness, awkward writing, and imbalance (the post-1849 period merits only 30 percent of the text). The sources consulted and properly footnoted are impressive, however, and the description of the oligarchy, its size, interconnectedness, interests...

... (between reformers and reactionaries). The aspirations of the people which are national in concept eventually will triumph, he feels, over the hitherto dominating interests of the oligarchy which are primarily anti-national and selfish in their concept. The second essay is a psychoanalysis of Brazil...

...Peter F. Klarén There is much more that could be said about this richly detailed and carefully documented hook. Suffice it to say that anyone interested in the structure and function of the Peruvian oligarchy and the state which it dominated for so long would do well to consult La oligarchía...

... University Press 1994 Did the Mexican Revolution eliminate the ruling elite of the Porfiriato? Did a new oligarchy emerge to replace that elite, and, if so, how did the old and new ruling classes interact? How did revolutionary principles fare in that interaction? This book focuses on the Terrazas...

... Press 1982 Osvaldo Hurtado concludes the original Spanish edition of the book under review with this reference to the Ecuadorian oligarchy, now awash with the wealth generated by oil: “Seldom have so few, in such a short time, gained so much” (p. 293). In fact, this class has proved resourceful...

..., and co-optation and passive obedience replace the active consent of the society” (pp. 101-102). That is a capsule description of El Salvador, if ever there was one. The “reactionary coalitions” in El Salvador have been the oligarchy, who controlled the economic and political life of the country until...

... Japanese farmers and, in the province of Lima, by real estate developers. 9 The party was also embraced by sectors of the old Civilista oligarchy who wished to utilize it as a shield against attacks from the only other mass political party in Peru, the APRA. Under the leadership of Luis A. Flores, who...

... of this book is that the progressive Uruguay created by Batlle y Ordóñez has been destroyed, along with the nations economy, by the oligarchy which has held power since 1933 and that if Batlle were alive today in Uruguay he would be a revolutionary. A closely related argument is that in Uruguay’s history...

... retarded the development of a national bourgeoisie with significant control over economic production. This has been reflected throughout Peruvian history whenever factions allied with foreign capital, particularly the export oligarchy, have placed their own economic interests ahead of those of the nation...

... which is traced the continuing domination of the “conservative oligarchy,” beginning with the March, 1795, movement of José Leonardo Chirinos and coming down to 1960. More than half the book is used to bring the story down to the events of the post-Gómez period, during the course of which the author...

... chapters describe the consolidation of the oligarchy, the golden age of supremacy, and the crisis which led to the decline of the ruling class, replaced by new democratic or populist mass movements. In short, like most of Carmagnani’s work, be provides an all-embracing and comprehensible image of the model...