Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia

by A. Ricardo López-Pedreros

In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo L pez-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide array of sources ranging from training manuals and oral histories to school and business archives, L pez-Pedreros shows how the Colombian middle class created a model of democracy based on free-market ideologies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478002859
• ISBN13: 9781478002857
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"