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Uruguay's José Batlle y Ordoñez : the determined visionary, 1915-1917 / Milton I. Vanger.
LIBRA F2728.B35 V36 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vanger, Milton I.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Batlle y Ordóñez, José, 1856-1929.
- Batlle y Ordóñez, José.
- Batlle y Ordóñez, José, 1856-1929--Political and social views.
- Social policy.
- Social problems.
- History.
- Social reformers.
- Political and social views.
- Uruguay--Politics and government--1904-1973.
- Uruguay.
- Politics and government.
- Presidents--Uruguay--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Social reformers--Uruguay--Biography.
- Social problems--Uruguay--History--20th century.
- Uruguay--Social policy.
- Viera, Feliciano, 1872-1927.
- Viera, Feliciano.
- Constitutional history--Uruguay.
- Constitutional history.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 295 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010.
- Contents:
- Viera's inauguration
- Piedras blancas
- Constitutional reform
- Batlle's reforms
- The eight-hour day
- Education
- Rancher opposition
- Old age pensions
- Catholicism in our times
- Campaigning
- Enforcing the eight-hour day
- Explaining the Colegiado
- Opposing the Colegiado
- The right to food
- Vote Colegialist or stay home?
- Election eve
- The defeat of the Colegiado
- Viera's halt
- Batlle's burial
- The grand solution
- A new cabinet
- The election of 14 January 1917
- Batlle resurrected
- The Committee of Eight and the new Constitution
- Where will the new Constitution take us?
- Uruguay wins diplomatically
- Viera ends the halt
- Batlle's "My conduct in the reform"
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Continues: The model country : José Batlle y Ordoñez of Uruguay, 1907-1915. Hanover, NH : University of New England Press, 1980.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781588266941
- 158826694X
- OCLC:
- 426065870
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