Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America: Dictators, Despots, and Tyrants

by Paul H. Lewis

Book Overview

This thoughtful text describes how Latin America's authoritarian culture has been and continues to be reflected in a variety of governments, from the near-anarchy of the early regional bosses (caudillos), to all-powerful personalistic dictators or oligarchic machines, to contemporary mass-movement regimes like Castro's Cuba or Peron's Argentina. Taking a student-friendly chronological approach, Paul Lewis also analyzes how the internal dynamics of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007CLZ3CK
• ISBN13: 9780742537392
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"