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.
ISBN: | 9780822955641 |
Publication date: | 21st December 1995 |
Author: | Evelyne Huber, Frank Safford |
Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 256 pages |
Series: | Pitt Latin American Series |
Genres: |
International economics |