Authoritarianism in Latin America Since Independence

List of contents

Preface
Introduction by Will Fowler
The Repeated Rise of General Antonio López de Santa Anna in the so-called "Age of Chaos" (Mexico, 1821-1855) by Will Fowler
Pragmatism, patriarchy, and patronage: Profirio Díaz and personalist politics in Mexico by Paul Garner
Ibañez: failed dictator and unwitting architect of political democracy in Chile, 1927-1931 by Francisco Domínguez
Fulgencio Batista, 1933-1944: From Revolutionary to Populist by Antoni Kapcia
Mechanisms of Control: The Stroessner Regime in Paraguay by Peter Lambert
Honduras: The politics of exception and military reformism (1972-1978) by Rachel Sieder
Proprietors not proletarians: The politics of housing subsidies under military rule in Chile by Ben Richards
Bibliography
Index

About the author

WILL FOWLER is lecturer in Hispanic and Latin American Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Product details

• Authors: William Fowler, William M. Jr. Fowler
• Assisted by: Will Fowler (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.1996
• EAN: 9780313298431
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29843-1
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; South America, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Development Studies, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Political ideologies and movements, National liberation and independence, Central America, Mexico and Central America, Politics, Law, and Government: Comparative Politics