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Argentine Caudillo - Juan Manuel de Rosas (Paperback)
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Argentine Caudillo - Juan Manuel de Rosas (Paperback)
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Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas, is John Lynch's new
edition of his 1981 book, which is now out of print. The original
has been shortened, making it well-suited for classroom use. The
figure of Juan Manual de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina
in the first half of the nineteenth century. Charles Darwin, who
met him on campaign against the Indians, described him as "a man of
extraordinary character," the lord of vast estates and, for over
twenty years, absolute ruler of Buenos Aires and its province. The
present book studies the forces which made and sustained Rosas, and
examines through him the roots of the caudillo tradition in
Argentina. It reconstructs the world of great estates and the rise
to power of their proprietors, establishing the relation of patron
and client, of master and peon, the basis of political allegiance
at that time. Argentine Caudillo follows the career of Rosas as a
classical caudillo, who rescued his people from fear and anarchy
and delivered them into the hands of a great dictatorship. Leader
of the gauchos, yet representative too of the powerful landed
proprietors and cattle exporters, Rosas established an early
prototype of a totalitarian state and employed systematic terror to
defend his rule. The book helps to elucidate the concept and
practice of caudillismo, or personal dictatorship, in the Hispanic
world, and the use of violence to seize and defend power. It does
this against a backdrop of transition from colony to independence,
and then from anarchy to absolutism. Argentine Caudillo provides a
detailed study of the use of state terror as an instrument of
policy, one of the few such studies for any period of Latin
American history. There is no book which duplicates this work
either inside Argentina or outside. In Argentina, Rosas has become
a subject of fierce controversy, partly because of his nationalism,
partly because of his reign of terror. Consequently, while there is
a vast bibliography on Rosas, much of it is polemical and
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