In this seminar we should explore the reasons for the stabilisation of most Latin American nations in the late nineteenth century under the control of civilian oligarchies who were normally based in the export sector. What was the basis of their wealth? How were they organised (parties/kinship groups/interest group associations)? How did they maintain political control? How were national and regional elites articulated into a national political system? Did the state have any autonomy and what did the oligarchies see as its proper functions? What were their other ideological objectives? How did they view the lower classes of their own country compared with Europeans? How did they confront the challenge from excluded middle and working class groups?
R. Graham (ed.), The Idea of Race in Latin America
C.A. Hale, `Political and Social Ideas in Latin America', in L. Bethell (ed.), Cambridge History of Latin America, IV, 367-441 [also in Bethell, Latin America: economy and society]
J. Love & N. Jacobsen (eds.), Guiding the Invisible Hand: economic liberalism and the state in Latin American history
V.C. Peloso & B. Tenenbaum (eds.), Liberals, Politics and Power: state formation in nineteenth-century Latin America
*J.C. Brown, `The Bondage of Old Habits in Nineteenth-Century Argentina', LARR 21:2 (1986), 3-32
M. Johns, `The Antinomies of Ruling Class Culture: the Buenos Aires elite, 1800-1910', Jnl. Hist. Sociology 6 (1993), 74-100
K. Mead, ‘Gendering the Obstacles to Progress in Positivist Argentina, 1880-1920’, HAHR 77 (1997), 645-676
D. Rock, Politics in Argentina: the rise and fall of Radicalism
R.J. Walter, `Parties, Politics and Elections in Argentina's Province of Buenos Aires, 1912-1942', HAHR 64 (1984), 707-736
E.A. Zimmerman, `Racial Ideas and Social Reform: Argentina, 1890-1916', HAHR 72 (1992), 23-46
*A.J. Bauer, `Industry and the Missing Bourgeoisie: consumption and development in Chile, 1850-1950', HAHR 70 (1990), 227-254
K.L. Remmer, `The Timing, Pace and Sequence of Political Change in Chile, 1891-1925', HAHR 57 (1977), 205-230
G.M. Yeager, `Elite Education in Nineteenth-Century Chile', HAHR 71 (1991), 73-106
M. Zeitlin, The Civil Wars in Chile (or the bourgeois revolutions that never were)
M.L. Conniff & F.D. McCann (eds.), Modern Brazil: elites and masses in historical perspective
G.M. Greenfield, `The Great Drought and Elite Discourse in Imperial Brazil, 1875-1900', HAHR 72 (1992), 375-400
J.D. Needell, ‘Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires: public space and public consciousness in Fin-de-Siècle Latin America’ CSSH 27 (1995), 519-540
S. Topik, `State Interventionism in a Liberal Regime: Brazil, 1889-1930', HAHR 60 (1980), 593-616
S. Topik, The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889-1930
*S. Topik, `The State's Contribution to the Development of Brazil's Internal Economy, 1850-1930', HAHR 65 (1985), 203-228
M.J. Gonzales, `Planters and Politics in Peru, 1895-1919', JLAS 23 (1991), 515-542
R. Miller, `The Coastal Elite and Peruvian Politics, 1895-1919', JLAS 14 (1982), 97-120
*A. Quiroz, `Financial Leadership and the Formation of Peruvian Elite Groups, 1884-1930', JLAS 20 (1988), 49-81
A. Guerrero, ‘The Construction of a Ventriloquist’s Image: liberal discourse and the “miserable Indian race” in late nineteenth century Ecuador’, JLAS 29 (1997), 555-590