State Formation and Democracy in Latin America, 1810-1900

by Lopez-Alves and Fernando López-Alves

Book Overview

Despite a shared colonial past, South American nations experienced different patterns of conflict in the nineteenth century. These differences led to the creation of a variety of states and regimes, from authoritarian military oligarchies to popular democracies. Using a rigorous logic of comparison, Fernando L pez-Alves explores the roots of state building in five countries and explains why the political systems of these early postindependent societies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822324741
• ISBN13: 9780822324744
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"