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Book SynopsisThe author describes and analyzes four principal factors that distinguish Latin America from the countries that share the northwestern European tradition: the absence of the feudal experience; the absence of religious nonconformity; the absence of any conceivable counterpart of the Industrial Revolution; and the absence of those ideological, social
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Abbreviations, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*1. Postfeudal Conquest, pg. 16*2. Castilian Origins, pg. 29*3. The Regalist Indies, pg. 46*4. Bourbon Recentralization, pg. 70*5. Pombaline Recentralization, pg. 90*6. The Central State And The Liberalization Of Trade, pg. 116*7. The Survival Of Political Centralism, pg. 141*8. Outward-Looking Nationalism And The Liberal Pause, pg. 163*9. Latitudinarian Religious Centralism, pg. 189*10. A Preindustrial Urban Culture, pg. 218*11. The British Model Of Industrialization, pg. 237*12. The Latin American Experience Of Industrialization, pg. 251*13. Authoritarian Recentralization, pg. 279*Bibliography, pg. 307*Index, pg. 329
