“The Path of Dictatorship”: The Erosion of Democracy and Capitalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico and Colombia
The first erosion of democracy in Latin America did not occur in the twentieth-century, but, rather, the nineteenth. I will argue that in Mexico and Colombia a vibrant, democratic political culture had emerged by the 1850s; however, by the 1870s, a political movement that united Liberals and Conserv...
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Language: | English |
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Universidad de los Andes
2020-10-01
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Series: | Revista de Estudios Sociales |
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Online Access: | https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/res74.2020.03 |