Politics in Argentina, 1890–1930: The Rise and Fall of Radicalism (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 19) - Hardcover

Rock, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521206634 ISBN 13: 9780521206631

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1975

Synopsis

This study is concerned with the forty-year period before 1930, when Argentina experienced rapid economic and social growth broken only by the First World War. The Radical Civic Union appeared in the 1912 elections and in 1916 its leader, Hipolito Yrigoyen, became President. Dr Rock discusses the origins and course of this experiment in representative government, and the distribution of power and political benefits under the new system in the light of the society created by the growth of the primary export economy: how it came about that the established political elite ceded control to the Radicals; whom they represented and towards which groups they directed their attentions. The work also deals with the methods of organization and mobilization used by them in a complex urban environment to develop and uphold their political support. It examines in some detail the class conflicts of the wartime period, the strikes whereby the workers sought to guard against the erosion of their wages by inflation, and the counter-mobilization of elite and middle-class groups, most notably in the bloody 'Tragic Week' of 1919.

About this title

Book Description:

This study is concerned with the forty-year period before 1930, when Argentina experienced rapid economic and social growth broken only by the First World War. The Radical Civic Union appeared in the 1912 elections and in 1916 its leader, Hipolito Yrigoyen, became President.

About the Author:

David Rock is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book is" Authoritarian Argentina: The Nationalist Movement, Its History and Its Impact."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0521206634
• ISBN 13: 9780521206631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324