Elites, Masses, and Modernization in Latin America, 1850-1930

by Thomas E. Skidmore and E. Bradford Burns

Book Overview

The interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America are explored from the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians in this volume. The result is a counterbalance of viewpoints on the urban and the rural, the rich and the poor, and the Europeanized and the traditional of Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

E. Bradford Burns advances the view that two cultures were in conflict...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292739966
• ISBN13: 9780292739963
• Release Date: December 1979
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"