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Book SynopsisDespite its importance, the twentieth-century Latin American right has received little scholarly attention. This is the first book to explicitly compare extreme rightist organizations, ideas, and actions in different national settings in Latin America. Hardly an undifferentiated whole, the right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile has changed over time and has contained moderate and extreme factions; the book''s title, Las Derechas, emphasizes this diversity. The author focuses on extreme right-wing movements, showing how their class and gender composition, motives, programs, and activities varied over time and between countries.
To demonstrate the variety of thought and fluidity of positions within the far right, the author brings to life the many voices it contained: its highbrow and lowbrow figures, its male and female exponents, and its mass-circulation periodicals and more erudite literature. The depiction of rallies, social welfare projects, and brutal clashes with op
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"The deepest, most nuanced history of the complex tapestry that, superficially, is called the South American right. . . . Scholars from all language and national backgrounds should use it as the point of departure for future research. . . . This splendid, highly learned book will be the standard text for a decade at least." -- American Historical Review
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Antecedents, 1890-1914: 1. Chile: the decline of a manly people; 2. A polluted Argentina; 3. Brazil: a fractured republic; 4. Conclusion; Part II. The Era of the Ligas: World War I to the Mid-1920s: 5. Chile: defending the fatherland; 6. Argentinizing labour; 7. Against anarchism: Brazilian nationalism; 8. Conclusion; 9. Chile: soclialism for the twentieth century; 10. Argentina: for fatherland, labour, and social justice; 11. Brazil: a revolution of the heart and soul; 12. Conclusion; The Legacy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
