Overview

Despite its importance, the twentieth-century Latin American right has received little scholarly attention. This is the first book explicitly to compare extreme rightist organizations, ideas, and actions in different national settings in Latin America. The right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile has changed over time and has contained moderate and extreme factions. 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. The study shows how radical rightists incorporated local concerns, rather than European dogma, into their agendas. It explores their relations with the military, Catholic Church, government, labor, and other groups throughout the political spectrum. The ties of radical rightists to moderate rightists are of particular interest. The book concludes with an epilogue that traces radical rightist movements up to the present.

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'This is a very ambitious and important work. Nobody to date has attempted to cover the subject of the book in such a comprehensive, careful, and imaginative manner. Specialists in other Latin American countries will consult it for comparative purposes, and non-Latin Americanists, especially those who focus on Europe, will find it useful.' Richard J. Walter, Washington University, St. Louis

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Sandra McGee Deutsch is Professor of History at the University of Texas—El Paso.

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