Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- 1 Population
- 2 The Latin American economies, 1929–1939
- 3 The Latin American economies, 1939–c. 1950
- 4 The Latin American economies, 1950–1990
- 5 Urban growth and urban social structure
- 6 Agrarian structures
- 7 State organization
- 8 Democracy
- 9 The Left
- 10 The military in politics
- 11 The urban working class and labour movements
- 12 Rural mobilizations
- 13 Women in twentieth-century Latin America
- 14 The Catholic church
- 15 The Protestant churches
- 16 Mexico, c. 1930–1946
- 17 Mexico since 1946
- 18 Central America
- 19 Guatemala
- 20 El Salvador
- 21 Honduras
- 22 Nicaragua
- 23 Costa Rica
- 24 Panama
- 25 The Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1979
- 26 Cuba, c. 1930–1959
- 27 Cuba since 1959
- 28 The Dominican Republic
- 29 Haiti
- 30 Puerto Rico
- 31 Argentina, 1930–1946
- 32 Argentina since 1946
- 33 Uruguay
- 34 Paraguay
- 35 Chile, c. 1930–c. 1960
- 36 Chile since c. 1960
- 37 Peru, 1930–c. 1960
- 38 Peru since c. 1960
- 39 Bolivia
- 40 Colombia
- 41 Ecuador
- 42 Venezuela
- 43 Brazil
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
7 - State organization
from VII - LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- 1 Population
- 2 The Latin American economies, 1929–1939
- 3 The Latin American economies, 1939–c. 1950
- 4 The Latin American economies, 1950–1990
- 5 Urban growth and urban social structure
- 6 Agrarian structures
- 7 State organization
- 8 Democracy
- 9 The Left
- 10 The military in politics
- 11 The urban working class and labour movements
- 12 Rural mobilizations
- 13 Women in twentieth-century Latin America
- 14 The Catholic church
- 15 The Protestant churches
- 16 Mexico, c. 1930–1946
- 17 Mexico since 1946
- 18 Central America
- 19 Guatemala
- 20 El Salvador
- 21 Honduras
- 22 Nicaragua
- 23 Costa Rica
- 24 Panama
- 25 The Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1979
- 26 Cuba, c. 1930–1959
- 27 Cuba since 1959
- 28 The Dominican Republic
- 29 Haiti
- 30 Puerto Rico
- 31 Argentina, 1930–1946
- 32 Argentina since 1946
- 33 Uruguay
- 34 Paraguay
- 35 Chile, c. 1930–c. 1960
- 36 Chile since c. 1960
- 37 Peru, 1930–c. 1960
- 38 Peru since c. 1960
- 39 Bolivia
- 40 Colombia
- 41 Ecuador
- 42 Venezuela
- 43 Brazil
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
The literature potentially relevant to this topic is vast, but sprawling and unmanageable. Oscar Oszlak, ‘The historical formation of the state in Latin America’, LARR, 16/2 (1981), 3–32, is a useful start, but deals only with the nineteenth century, as does his monograph, La formatión del estado argentino (Buenos Aires, 1990). The same is true of José Murilo de Carvalho, ‘Political elites and state-building: The case of nineteenth-century Brazil’, CSSH, 24 (1982), 378–99, and Fernando Uríoechea, The Patrimonial Foundations of the Brazilian Bureaucratic State (Berkeley, 1980). The main arguments of Claudio Véliz, The Centralist Tradition of Latin America (Princeton, N.J., 1980) remain unpersuasive. Tulio Halperín-Donghi, The Aftermath of Revolution in Latin America (New York, 1973) is a useful antidote. See also Horst Pietschmann, El estado y su evolución al principio de la colonización espanola de América (Mexico, D.F., 1989); A. Annino et al., America Latina: Dello stato coloniale allo stato nazione (1750–1940), 2 vols. (Milan, 1987); Oscar Oszlak, Ensayos sobre la formacion histórica del estado en América Latina (San José, C.R., 1981); and Arnaldo Córdova, ‘Los orígenes del Estado en América Latina’, Cuaderno 32, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico, D.F., 1977). For paired comparisons of nineteenth-century Latin American state-building, see Hélgio Trindade, ‘A construção do estado nacional na Argentina e no Brasil (1810–1900): Esboço de uma análise comparativa’, Dados, 28/1 (1985); and Fernando Uríoechea, ‘Formação e expansão do estado burocrático – patrimonial na Colombia e no Brasil’, Estudos CEBRAP, 21 (1977. See also Steven Topik, ‘The economic role of the state in Liberal regimes – Brazil and Mexico compared, 1888–1910’, in Joseph L. Love and Nils Jacobsen (eds.), Guiding the Invisible Hand: Economic Liberalism and the State in Latin American History (New York, 1988).
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 568 - 573Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995