In this major revision of the Borzoi Book Dictatorship in Spanish America, editor Hugh Hamill has presented conflicting interpretations of caudillismo in twenty-seven essays written by an international group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, journalists, and caudillos themselves. The selections represent revisionists, apologists, enemies, and even a victim of caudillos. The personalities discussed include the Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo, the Argentinian gaucho Facundo Quiroga, the Guatemalan Rafael Carrera, the Colombian Rafael Núñez, Mexico’s Porfirio Díaz, the Somoza family of Nicaragua, the Dominican "Benefactor" Rafael Trujillo, the Argentinians Juan Perón and his wife Evita, Paraguay’s Alfredo Stroessner - called "The Tyrannosaur," Chile’s Augusto Pinochet, and Cuba’s Fidel Castro.
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Hugh Hamill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Connecticut. He is author of The Hidalgo Revolt: Prelude to Mexican Independence.
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In this very thought provoking book, Hugh M. Hamill has selected a multitude of texts in order to give the reader a multidisciplinary outlook of the phenomenon of caudillismo. Articles by historians, political scientists as well as caudillos themselves allow for the neophyte to take a peek into this the world of these great and not so great leaders of Latin America. This book is a must for anyone with an interest in the particular world of Latin American politics.
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IT has been observed that in many countries of Central and South America the local and even national government has often been monopolized by "strong men," "caudillos," and "caciques" who perpetuate themselves in power, sometimes even under cover of constitutional or judicial fictions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
caudillaje society, caudillaje culture, caudillaje man, kinship elite, monistic democracy, absolute impairment, caudillo leaders, surrounded man, foreign factors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Latin America, Spanish American, Buenos Aires, Dominican Republic, Dominican Party, New Granada, General Pinochet, Organization of American States, Porfirio Diaz, Facundo Quiroga, New World, Santo Domingo, North American, Upper Peru, World War, Fidel Castro, Santa Anna, Alfredo Stroessner, First Lady, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Francisco Bilbao, Juan Nepomuceno Moreno, New Spain, New York New!
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IT has been observed that in many countries of Central and South America the local and even national government has often been monopolized by "strong men," "caudillos," and "caciques" who perpetuate themselves in power, sometimes even under cover of constitutional or judicial fictions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
caudillaje society, caudillaje culture, caudillaje man, kinship elite, monistic democracy, absolute impairment, caudillo leaders, surrounded man, foreign factors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Latin America, Spanish American, Buenos Aires, Dominican Republic, Dominican Party, New Granada, General Pinochet, Organization of American States, Porfirio Diaz, Facundo Quiroga, New World, Santo Domingo, North American, Upper Peru, World War, Fidel Castro, Santa Anna, Alfredo Stroessner, First Lady, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Francisco Bilbao, Juan Nepomuceno Moreno, New Spain, New York New!
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- A History of Argentine Political Thought by Joseluis Romero in Front Matter, page 116, and Back Matter
- The New Authoritarianism in Latin America by David Collier in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Latin America by Howard Wiarda in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Military Rule in Chile: Dictatorship and Oppositions by Professor Julio Valenzuela on page 325, and page 334
- Pinochet: The Politics of Power (Thematic studies in Latin America) by Genaro Arriagada Herrera on page 326, and Back Matter
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- Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change, and Globalization by William I. Robinson in Back Matter
- Latin America In The World Economy: Mercantile Colonialism To Global Capitalism (Latin American Perspectives) by Frederick Stirton Weaver in Back Matter
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