This volume examines the ways in which the socio-economic elites of the region have transformed and expanded the material bases of their power from the inceptio

This volume examines the ways in which the socio-economic elites of the region have transformed and expanded the material bases of their power from the inceptio

Most current analysis on Latin American politics has been directed at examining the shift to the left in the region. Very little attention, however, has been pa

State Building in Latin America diverges from existing scholarship in developing explanations both for why state-building efforts in the region emerged and for

From the Preface by Bradford Burns:If this essay succeeds, it will open an interpretive window providing a different perspective of Latin America's recent past.