State And Underdevelopment In Spanish America
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Author_Douglas Friedman
Bourbon Reforms
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires Province
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Cerro De Pasco Corporation
Charles III
class conflict theory
Colonial Administration
Colonial Spanish America
dependency origins in Peru and Argentina
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Ferdinand VII
Guano Trade
Hapsburg Bureaucracy
Independence Governments
Interior Provinces
international economic integration
Intra-class Conflict
Junta Central
legitimacy crisis governance
Mineral Export Economies
nineteenth century Latin America
Nineteenth Century Spanish
Nineteenth Century Spanish America
political economy analysis
postcolonial state formation
Short Lived
Spanish America
Spanish American Countries
Spanish Colonial State
Tupac Amaru
Tupac Amaru Revolt
Upper Peru
Product details
- ISBN 9780367296315
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 144 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Challenging the dependency theory approach to the origin of underdevelopment in Spanish America, this book argues that internal political and economic factors led the nations of the region to become dependent and underdeveloped during the nineteenth century. Dr. Friedman focuses on Peru and Argentina in the aftermath of their wars of independence to show how underdevelopment and dependency resulted from a crisis of the state brought about by the loss of legitimacy of Spanish colonial rule. Class conflicts had been effectively managed by the colonial state; its collapse, Dr. Friedman demonstrates, created conditions of intense inter- and intra-class conflicts, chiefly political in nature, which weak post-independence governments found impossible to restrain. Left with little authority, legitimacy, or control over internal resources, the fledging Peruvian and Argentine states turned to external sources for the capabilities with which to begin the process of consolidating their internal power. By the last half of the nineteenth century, both Peru and Argentina had chosen a course that led to their integration into the international economy as dependent nations.
Douglas Friedman is assistant professor of political science at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.
