Politics in Argentina, 1890-1930 by David Rock

Politics in Argentina, 1890-1930 by David Rock

This study is concerned with the forty-year period before 1930, when Argentina experienced rapid economic and social growth broken only by the First World War. The Radical Civic Union appeared in the 1912 elections and in 1916 its leader, Hipolito Yrigoyen, became President. Dr Rock discusses the origins and course of this experiment in representative government, and the distribution of power and political benefits under the new system in the light of the society created by the growth of the primary export economy: how it came about that the established political elite ceded control to the Radicals; whom they represented and towards which groups they directed their attentions. The work also deals with the methods of organization and mobilization used by them in a complex urban environment to develop and uphold their political support. It examines in some detail the class conflicts of the wartime period, the strikes whereby the workers sought to guard against the erosion of their wages by inflation, and the counter-mobilization of elite and middle-class groups, most notably in the bloody 'Tragic Week' of 1919.

Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, David Rock

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ISBN 13	9780521102322
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Titel	Politics in Argentina, 1890-1930
Autor	David Rock
Serie	Cambridge Latin American Studies
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2009-03-12
Seitenanzahl	328
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