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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811652603321

Titolo

Latin American bureaucracy and the state building process (1780-1860) / / edited by Juan Carlos Garavaglia and Juan Pro Ruiz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, Neb., : Cambridge Scholars Pub., c2013

ISBN

1-4438-5086-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (446 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GaravagliaJuan Carlos

Pro RuizJuan

Disciplina

320.98

Soggetti

Authoritarianism - Latin America

Bureaucracy

Public administration

Latin America Politics and government To 1830

Latin America Politics and government 1830-1948

Latin America History 18th century

Latin America History 1830-1898

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; GLOSSARY

Sommario/riassunto

The process of construction of national states had a decisive moment during the period of revolutions that spanned from the end of the eighteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century. Even if it was a generalized process throughout the Western world, the majority of social scientists that have analyzed it have based their theoretical models on the European and North American experiences. This volume pays particular attention to the historical experience of Latin America and accounts for its distinctive regional and national characteristics through the analysis of cases. It also evokes the