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

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...

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