Makers of Democracy - A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University and coeditor of The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History, also published by Duke University Press.

List of contents

List of Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. "There Is No Other Class in Democracy"  1
Part I. Conscripts of Democracy: The Alliance for Progress, Development, and the (Re)Formation of a Gendered Middle Class, 1958–1965
1. A Bastard Middle Class  21
2. An Irresistible Democracy  42
3. The Productive Wealth of This Country  62
4. Beyond Capital and Labor  86
Part II. Contested Democracies: Classed Subjectivities, Social Movements, and Gendered Petit Bourgeois Radicalization, 1960s–1970s
5. In the Middle of the Mess  109
6. A Revolution for a Democratic Middle-Class Society  139
7. A Real Revolution, a Real Democracy  172
8. Democracy: The Most Important Gift to the World  225
Epilogue. A Class that Does (Not) Matter: Democracy beyond Democracy  255
Appendix  263
Notes  271
Bibliography  303
Index  333

About the author

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros

Summary

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia in the second half of the twentieth century, showing democracy to be a historically unstable and contentious practice.

Product details

• Authors: A. Ricardo L=pez-pedreros, A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros, A Ricardo López-Pedreros, A. Ricardo López-Pedreros
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781478001775
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0177-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Radical Perspectives; Radical Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Südamerika, Amerikanische Geschichte, Bevölkerung und Demographie, History - General History, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban