The Many and the Few: Political Participation in Republican Buenos Aires

by Hilda Sabato

Book Overview

This book analyzes the relationship between the many and the few in the formation of a republican polity. It studies the case of Buenos Aires in the 1860s and 1870s, when the inauguration of a new national order in Argentina entailed a radical change in the ways of power. By exploring the different forms of participation of the people in the public life of the city, it illuminates a frequently neglected side of the process of construction and legitimization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739447
• ISBN13: 9780804739443
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.7"