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Carlos Waisman has pinpointed the specific beliefs that led the Peronists unwittingly to transform their country from a relatively prosperous land of recent settlement, like Australia and Canada, to an impoverished and underdeveloped society resembling the rest of Latin America. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Tables, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*1. The Argentine Riddle and Sociology of Development, pg. 1*2. Is Argentina a Deviant Case? Resource Endowments, Development, and Democracy in Sociological Theory, pg. 24*3. Images and Facts: Argentina Against the New Country and Latin American Mirrors, pg. 36*4. In Search of Argentina: The Adequacy of Various Factors for the Explanation of the Reversal, pg. 94*5. Why the State Became Autonomous in the Forties, pg. 128*6. The Primacy of Politics: The Question of Revolution in the Forties, pg. 164*7. Social Integration and the Inordinate Fear of Communism, pg. 207*8. The Disadvantages of Modernity, pg. 253*Bibliography, pg. 287*Index, pg. 319

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691604565, 978-0691604565
      ISBN10: 0691604568
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      Book Synopsis

      Carlos Waisman has pinpointed the specific beliefs that led the Peronists unwittingly to transform their country from a relatively prosperous land of recent settlement, like Australia and Canada, to an impoverished and underdeveloped society resembling the rest of Latin America. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Tables, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*1. The Argentine Riddle and Sociology of Development, pg. 1*2. Is Argentina a Deviant Case? Resource Endowments, Development, and Democracy in Sociological Theory, pg. 24*3. Images and Facts: Argentina Against the New Country and Latin American Mirrors, pg. 36*4. In Search of Argentina: The Adequacy of Various Factors for the Explanation of the Reversal, pg. 94*5. Why the State Became Autonomous in the Forties, pg. 128*6. The Primacy of Politics: The Question of Revolution in the Forties, pg. 164*7. Social Integration and the Inordinate Fear of Communism, pg. 207*8. The Disadvantages of Modernity, pg. 253*Bibliography, pg. 287*Index, pg. 319

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