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Elites, masses, and modernization in Latin America, 1850-1930 / by E. Bradford Burns and Thomas E. Skidmore ; introd. by Richard Graham ; edited by Virginia Bernhard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, E. Bradford, author.
- Skidmore, Thomas E., author.
- Series:
- Texas Pan American series.
- The Texas Pan American series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elite (Social sciences)--Latin America.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Culture conflict--Latin America.
- Culture conflict.
- Industrial relations--Latin America.
- Industrial relations.
- Latin America--Social conditions.
- Latin America.
- Latin America--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (166 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [1979]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America are explored from the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians in this volume. The result is a counterbalance of viewpoints on the urban and the rural, the rich and the poor, and the Europeanized and the traditional of Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. E. Bradford Burns advances the view that two cultures were in conflict in nineteenth-century Latin America: that of the modernizing, European-oriented elite, and that of the “common folk” of mixed racial background who lived close to the earth. Thomas E. Skidmore discusses the emerging field of labor history in twentieth-century Latin America, suggesting that the historical roots of today’s exacerbated tensions lie in the secular struggle of army against workers that he describes. In the introduction, Richard Graham takes issue with both authors on certain basic premises and points out implications of their essays for the understanding of North American as well as Latin American history.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Popular Challenges and Elite Responses: An Introduction
- Cultures in Conflict: The Implication of Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
- Workers and Soldiers: Urban Labor Movements and Elite Responses in Twentieth-Century Latin America
- Notes
- University of St. Thomas B. K. Smith Lectures in History
- Notes:
- Two lectures originally presented at the University of St. Thomas in Houston in 1978, revised for publication.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4773-0568-8
- OCLC:
- 1286806871
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