TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kurtz,Marcus J.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Latin American state building in comparative perspective: social foundations of institutional order 
AV  - JL966 .K87 2013
U1  - 320.98 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Nation-building
KW  - Latin America
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: 1. The difficulties of state building; 2. The social foundations of state building in the contemporary era; 3. State formation in Chile and Peru: institution building and atrophy in unlikely settings; 4. State formation in Argentina and Uruguay: agrarian capitalism, elite conflict, and the construction of cooperation; 5. Divergence reinforced: the timing of political inclusion and state strength in Chile and Peru; 6. The social question and the state: mass mobilization, suffrage, and institutional development in Argentina and Uruguay; 7. Conclusions, implications, and extensions: social foundations, Germany/Prussia, and the limits of contemporary state building; Bibliography; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "Provides an account of long-run institutional development in Latin America that emphasizes the social and political foundations of state-building processes"--
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1099808
ER  -