Politics in Argentina, 1890 1930: The Rise and Fall of Radicalism

by David Rock

Book Overview

This study is concerned with the forty-year period before 1930, when Argentina experienced rapid economic and social growth broken only by the First World War. The Radical Civic Union appeared in the 1912 elections and in 1916 its leader, Hipolito Yrigoyen, became President. Dr Rock discusses the origins and course of this experiment in representative government, and the distribution of power and political benefits under the new system in the light...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521102324
• ISBN13: 9780521102322
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"