The Last Caudillo
Title | The Last Caudillo PDF eBook |
Author | Jürgen Buchenau |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2011-04-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1405199032 |
The Last Caudillo presents a brief biography of the life and times of General Alvaro Obregón, along with new insights into the Mexican Revolution and authoritarian rule in Latin America. Features a succinct biography of the life and times of a fascinating figure in Mexico's revolutionary past Represents the most analytical and up-to-date study of caudillo/military strongman rule Sheds new light on the networks and discourse practices that support rulers such as the Castros in Cuba and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, and the emergence of modern Mexico Offers new insights into the role of leadership, the nature of revolution, and the complex forces that helped shape modern Mexico
The Last Caudillo
Title | The Last Caudillo PDF eBook |
Author | Jürgen Buchenau |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2011-02-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1444397184 |
The Last Caudillo presents a brief biography of the life and times of General Alvaro Obregón, along with new insights into the Mexican Revolution and authoritarian rule in Latin America. Features a succinct biography of the life and times of a fascinating figure in Mexico's revolutionary past Represents the most analytical and up-to-date study of caudillo/military strongman rule Sheds new light on the networks and discourse practices that support rulers such as the Castros in Cuba and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, and the emergence of modern Mexico Offers new insights into the role of leadership, the nature of revolution, and the complex forces that helped shape modern Mexico
Heroes on Horseback
Title | Heroes on Horseback PDF eBook |
Author | John Charles Chasteen |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780826315984 |
A sweeping narrative of two 19th century charismatic leaders and their powerful armies on the Brazil/Uruguay border.
Caudillos
Title | Caudillos PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh M. Hamill |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1992-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806124285 |
In this major revision of the Borzoi Book Dictatorship in Spanish America, editor Hugh Hamill has presented conflicting interpretations of caudillismo in twenty-seven essays written by an international group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, journalists, and caudillos themselves. The selections represent revisionists, apologists, enemies, and even a victim of caudillos. The personalities discussed include the Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo, the Argentinian gaucho Facundo Quiroga, the Guatemalan Rafael Carrera, the Colombian Rafael Núñez, Mexico’s Porfirio Díaz, the Somoza family of Nicaragua, the Dominican "Benefactor" Rafael Trujillo, the Argentinians Juan Perón and his wife Evita, Paraguay’s Alfredo Stroessner - called "The Tyrannosaur," Chile’s Augusto Pinochet, and Cuba’s Fidel Castro.
The Caudillo of the Andes
Title | The Caudillo of the Andes PDF eBook |
Author | Natalia Sobrevilla Perea |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107377625 |
Born in La Paz in 1792, Andrés de Santa Cruz lived through the turbulent times that led to independence across Latin America. He fought to shape the newly established republics, and between 1836 and 1839 he created the Peru-Bolivia Confederation. The epitome of an Andean caudillo, with armed forces at the center of his ideas of governance, he was a state builder whose ambition ensured a strong and well-administered country. But the ultimate failure of the Confederation had long-reaching consequences that still have an impact today. The story of his life introduces students to broader questions of nationality and identity during this turbulent transition from Spanish colonial rule to the founding of Peru and Bolivia.
Mexico
Title | Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Enrique Krauze |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 885 |
Release | 2013-04-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0062285262 |
The concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Mother Church and the mixing of the Spanish and Indian population into a mestizo culture. Krauze shows how history becomes biography during the century of caudillos from the insurgent priests in 1810 to Porfirio and the Revolution in 1910. The Revolutionary era, ending in 1940, was dominated by the lives of seven presidents -- Madero, Zapata, Villa, Carranza, Obregon, Calles and Cardenas. Since 1940, the dominant power of the presidency has continued through years of boom and bust and crisis. A major question for the modern state, with today's president Zedillo, is whether that power can be decentralized, to end the cycles of history as biographies of power.
Guatemalan Caudillo, the Regime of Jorge Ubico
Title | Guatemalan Caudillo, the Regime of Jorge Ubico PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth J. Grieb |
Publisher | |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | History |
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