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Intellectuals and Left Politics in Uruguay, 1958-2006: Frustrated Dialogue
Stephen Gregory
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Description for Intellectuals and Left Politics in Uruguay, 1958-2006: Frustrated Dialogue
Hardback. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSU; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
Beginning in the year Uruguayans elected a different party into government for the first time in nearly a century, the author examines intellectuals' role in the Uruguayan left's drive toward unity and effectiveness. Discussion focuses on fragmentation and impotence on the left; frustrated attempts at left unity in the 1960s; the creation of the centre-left Broad Front in 1971; and the defeat of all left endeavours and all dialogue in the 1973 military coup -- a prelude to a twelve-year dictatorship in which the military substituted themselves for intellectuals. The story continues in 1985, reversing the earlier trend in a ... Read more
Beginning in the year Uruguayans elected a different party into government for the first time in nearly a century, the author examines intellectuals' role in the Uruguayan left's drive toward unity and effectiveness. Discussion focuses on fragmentation and impotence on the left; frustrated attempts at left unity in the 1960s; the creation of the centre-left Broad Front in 1971; and the defeat of all left endeavours and all dialogue in the 1973 military coup -- a prelude to a twelve-year dictatorship in which the military substituted themselves for intellectuals. The story continues in 1985, reversing the earlier trend in a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845192655
SKU
V9781845192655
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About Stephen Gregory
Stephen Gregory is a retired Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of New South Wales, where he is currently an Honorary Research Fellow. Dr Gregory, who now lives permanently in Montevideo with his Uruguayan wife Lilian, is the author of Intellectuals and Left Politics in Uruguay, 1958-2006 (Sussex Academic Press, 2009) and El rostro tras la pagina: ... Read more
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