...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...

...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...

...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...

..., and intellectual forces that, within the short period of thirty-five years, saw the rise and fall of the oligarchy’s undisputed domination over Peruvian politics and society. In three parts of five chapters each, the authors first deal with some of the major economic structures of early twentieth-century Peru...

... 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...

... aspects of the Isthmian ruling class during the eighty-two years of Colombian domination. For almost three decades after gaining independence from Spain and uniting with Colombia, Panama suffered economic depression. This was especially distressing to the tightly knit, “white” oligarchy of Panama City...

... Gilbert’s work on the formation and evolution of the Peruvian oligarchy, carried out during the 1970s and well known to Peruvianists through the Cornell dissertation series (The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Peru , 1977), has now appeared in translation in Lima. It is a truly captivating story...

... (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...

... 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...

... Salvador the institutions of the military and oligarchy and their power must be fundamentally altered. That, by definition, is revolution, a word Baloyra, like the liberals, shuns. Baloyra tells us why a revolution is occurring; he fails to tell us how. Baloyra’s lack of firsthand contact with members...

... precariously holding on to a way of life that was threatened by competition from 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...

... 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...