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Author: Joel Horowitz (Saint Bonaventure University)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9780271034041
ISBN 10: 0271034041
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 19 November 2008
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<p> [Joel Horowitz] has made a fantastic contribution to the historiography with this finely researched monograph. <p>--M. E. Kehren, Choice
Joel Horowitz has written a thoughtful and well-researched book for a period of Argentina's history much in need of further understanding. --Paula Alonso, American Historical Review
[Joel Horowitz] has made a fantastic contribution to the historiography with this finely researched monograph. --M. E. Kehren, Choice
Joel Horowitz has written a thoughtful and well-researched book for a period of Argentina's history much in need of further understanding. -Paula Alonso, American Historical Review [Joel Horowitz] has made a fantastic contribution to the historiography with this finely researched monograph. -M. E. Kehren, Choice This book sheds new light on a crucial chapter in the struggle for democracy in Argentina. Drawing on approaches from political and labor history, Horowitz's study examines the complex negotiations among party leaders, state officials, and working people that shaped public life during the heyday of Radical Party rule. In the process, it questions familiar assumptions regarding cronyism and popular politics associated with the Argentine republic in the early twentieth century. -Eduardo Elena, University of Miami At a time when historical scholarship on Latin America is awash in postmodern cultural and gender studies, often dealing with subjects of trivial consequence, Joel Horowitz's book tackles an enormously important subject. Argentina's Union Civica Radical was Latin America's first mass-based political party, arguably the first to emerge in the former colonial world. The UCR's history ranks with that of the Congress Party in India and a handful of other examples of attempts to institutionalize and democratize politics on the remnants of colonial structures and practices. The UCR thus occupies a prominent place not only in Argentina's history but also in the history of twentieth-century democracy. This is a story ripe for a reassessment. Horowitz provides the most detailed study of labor politics in the decade that exists in any language; no historian, even from Argentina, has his command and understanding of the politics of labor in this decade. He covers all the major ideological tendencies, labor confederations, and key unions with absolute mastery. His research is extraordinarily deep here, and the chapters are brimming with insights. The publication of Joel Horowitz's book confirms Penn State University Press's status as the leading English-language publisher of Argentine history. -James P. Brennan, University of California, Riverside
Author Information
Joel Horowitz is Professor of History at Saint Bonaventure University.
