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Materiały z prac Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.
Author : James Daniel Theberge
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN :
Materiały z prac Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.
Author : Francisco García Calderón
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Latin America
ISBN :
Author : Francisco García Calderón
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Latin America
ISBN :
Author : Francisco Garc�ia Calder�on
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Latin America
ISBN :
Author : E. Bradford Burns
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520342437
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. At first glance, the view might seem to be of the conventional landscape of modernization, but I hope a steady gaze will reveal it to be far vaster and more complex. For one thing, rather than enumerating the benefits accruing to Latin America as modernization became a dominant feature of the social, economic, and political life of the region, this essay regards the imposition of modernization as the catalyst of a devastating cultural struggle and as a barrier to Latin America's development. Clearly if a window to the past is opened by this essay, then so too is a new door to controversy. After most of the nations of Latin America gained political independence, their leaders rapidly accelerated trends more leisurely under way since the closing decades of the eighteenth century: the importation of technology and ideas with their accompanying values from Western Europe north of the Pyrenees and the full entrance into the world's capitalistic marketplace. Such trends shaped those new nations more profoundly than their advocates probably had realized possible. Their promoters moved forward steadfastly within the legacy of some basic institutions bequeathed by centuries of Iberian rule. That combination of hoary institutions with newer, non-Iberian technology, values, and ideas forged contemporary Latin America with its enigma of overwhelming poverty amid potential plenty. This essay emphasizes that the victory of the European oriented ruling elites over the Latin American folk with their community values resulted only after a long and violent struggle, which characterized most of the nineteenth century. Whatever advantages might have resulted from the success of the elites, the victory also fastened two dominant and interrelated characteristics on contemporary Latin America: a deepening dependency and the declining quality of life for the majority.
Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000315649
This integrated collection of original essays evaluates and assesses whether democracy is viable in Latin America and, if so, how and in what form. The authors examine the significance, for both Latin America and the United States, of the dominance of authoritarian political systems in most Latin American countries; explore the implications of asse
Author : E. Bradford Burns
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 1983-12-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520050789
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. At first glance, the view might seem to be of the conventional landscape of modernization, but I hope a steady gaze will reveal it to be far vaster and more complex. For one thing, rather than enumerating the benefits accruing to Latin America as modernization became a dominant feature of the social, economic, and political life of the region, this essay regards the imposition of modernization as the catalyst of a devastating cultural struggle and as a barrier to Latin America's development. Clearly if a window to the past is opened by this essay, then so too is a new door to controversy. After most of the nations of Latin America gained political independence, their leaders rapidly accelerated trends more leisurely under way since the closing decades of the eighteenth century: the importation of technology and ideas with their accompanying values from Western Europe north of the Pyrenees and the full entrance into the world's capitalistic marketplace. Such trends shaped those new nations more profoundly than their advocates probably had realized possible. Their promoters moved forward steadfastly within the legacy of some basic institutions bequeathed by centuries of Iberian rule. That combination of hoary institutions with newer, non-Iberian technology, values, and ideas forged contemporary Latin America with its enigma of overwhelming poverty amid potential plenty. This essay emphasizes that the victory of the European oriented ruling elites over the Latin American folk with their community values resulted only after a long and violent struggle, which characterized most of the nineteenth century. Whatever advantages might have resulted from the success of the elites, the victory also fastened two dominant and interrelated characteristics on contemporary Latin America: a deepening dependency and the declining quality of life for the majority.
Author : Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 1993
Category :
ISBN :
Author : American Academy Of Political And Social
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781378659120
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Author : Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 1973
Category :
ISBN :