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In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of
the twentieth, a new class-the oligarchy-consolidated its wealth
and political power in Latin America. Its members were the sugar
planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, and bankers who were
growing rich in a rapidly expanding global economy. Examining these
immensely powerful groups, Dennis Gilbert provides a systematic
comparative history of the rise and ultimate demise of the
oligarchies that dominated Latin America for nearly a century. He
then sketches a fine-grained portrait of three prominent Peruvian
families, providing a vivid window into the everyday exercise of
power. Here we see the oligarchs arranging the deportation of
"political undesirables," controlling labor through means subtle
and brutal, orchestrating press campaigns, extending credit on easy
terms to rising military officers, and financing the overthrow of
an unfriendly government. Gilbert concludes by answering three
questions: What were the sources of oligarchic power? What were the
forces that undermined it? Why did oligarchies persist longer in
some countries than in others? His clear, comprehensible, and
illuminating analysis will make this an invaluable book for all
students of modern Latin America.
In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of
the twentieth, a new class-the oligarchy-consolidated its wealth
and political power in Latin America. Its members were the sugar
planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, and bankers who were
growing rich in a rapidly expanding global economy. Examining these
immensely powerful groups, Dennis Gilbert provides a systematic
comparative history of the rise and ultimate demise of the
oligarchies that dominated Latin America for nearly a century. He
then sketches a fine-grained portrait of three prominent Peruvian
families, providing a vivid window into the everyday exercise of
power. Here we see the oligarchs arranging the deportation of
"political undesirables," controlling labor through means subtle
and brutal, orchestrating press campaigns, extending credit on easy
terms to rising military officers, and financing the overthrow of
an unfriendly government. Gilbert concludes by answering three
questions: What were the sources of oligarchic power? What were the
forces that undermined it? Why did oligarchies persist longer in
some countries than in others? His clear, comprehensible, and
illuminating analysis will make this an invaluable book for all
students of modern Latin America.
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