Reversal of Development in Argentina : : Postwar Counterrevolutionary Policies and Their Structural Consequences / / Carlos Horacio Waisman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Waisman, Carlos Horacio,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 811
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)

Carlos Waisman has pinpointed the specific beliefs that led the Peronists unwittingly to transform their country from a relatively prosperous land of recent settlement, like Australia and Canada, to an impoverished and underdeveloped society resembling the rest of Latin America.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. The Argentine Riddle and Sociology of Development -- 2. Is Argentina a Deviant Case? Resource Endowments, Development, and Democracy in Sociological Theory -- 3. Images and Facts: Argentina Against the New Country and Latin American Mirrors -- 4. In Search of Argentina: The Adequacy of Various Factors for the Explanation of the Reversal -- 5. Why the State Became Autonomous in the Forties -- 6. The Primacy of Politics: The Question of Revolution in the Forties -- 7. Social Integration and the Inordinate Fear of Communism -- 8. The Disadvantages of Modernity -- Bibliography -- Index