Agrarian Structure And Political Power: Landlord And Peasant In The Making Of Latin American (pitt Latin American Series)

The troubled history of democracy in Latin America has been the subject of much scholarly commentary. This volume breaks new ground by systematically exploring the linkages among the historical legacies of large landholding patterns, agrarian class relations, and authoritarian versus democratic trajectories in Latin American countries. The essays address questions about the importance of large landownders for the national economy, the labor needs and labor relations of these landowners, attempts of landowners to enlist the support of the state to control labor, and the democratic forms of rule in the twentieth century. “Represents a belated but welcome attempt to relate Latin American to a familiar corpus of grand theory: that propounded by Barrington Moore in his influential Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. . . . The book is a good idea, well executed, and will be read with interest—even by those who have little time for Barrington Moore in particular, or grand theory in general.”—Latin American Studies “A thorough and rigorous text of the Moorean paradigm for Latin America. Here we have an extraordinarily valuable and diverse set of essays on the historical formation of Latin American political cultures and the importance of agrarian structures therein.”—Nils Jacobsen “This is a book that has been waiting to be written for some time. The contributors include some of the giants in the field [who] will inspire others to write on this subject.”—Mitchell A. Seligson Landlord And Campesino In The Chilean Road To Democracy / Arnold J. Bauer -- The Buenos Aires Landed Class And The Shape Of Argentine Politics (1820-1930) / Tulio Halperín Donghi -- Authoritarianism, Political Culture, And The Formation Of The State : Landowners, Agrarian Movements, And The Making Of National Politics In Nineteenth-century Mexico And Peru / Florencia E. Mallon -- Agrarian Systems And The State : The Case Of Colombia / Frank Safford -- Lord And Peasant In The Making Of Modern Central America / Lowell Gudmundson -- Applying Moore's Model To Latin America : Some Historians' Observations / Frank Safford -- Conclusion : Agrarian Structure And Political Power In Comparative Perspective / Evelyne Huber And John D. Stephens. Evelyne Huber And Frank Safford, Editors. The Intellectual Origins Of This Book Lie In An Interdisciplinary Seminar On Latin America And The Caribbean ... At Northwestern University--p. Vii. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Preface and Acknowledgments 8 Introduction (E. Huber) 12 Landlord and Campesino in the Chilean Road to Democracy (A. Bauer) 30 The Buenos Aires Landed Class and the Shape of Argentine Politics (T. Donghi) 48 Authoritarianism, Political Culture, and the Formation of the State (F. Mallon) 76 Agrarian Systems and the State: The Case of Colombia (F. Safford) 120 Lord and Peasant in the Making of Modern Central America (L. Gudmundson) 160 Applying Moore's Model to Latin America: Some Historians' Observations (F. Safford) 186 Conclusion: Agrarian Structure and Political Powerin Comparative Perspective (E. Huber & J. Stephens) 192 Notes on Contributors 242 Index 244 This volume explores the linkages among the historical legacies of large landholding patterns, agrarian class relations and authoritarian versus democratic trajectories in Latin American countries. It addresses the importance of large landowners for the national economy.