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Reforming Chile
Patrick Barr-Melej
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Description for Reforming Chile
Paperback. Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role played by society's middle layers in the historical development of Latin America, this work provides an analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and its profound impact on that country's cultural and political landscapes. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSC; JHMC; JPFN; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 435.
A new framework for understanding Chile's cultural and political modernization Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role played by society's middle layers in the historical development of Latin America, Patrick Barr-Melej provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and its profound impact on that country's cultural and political landscapes. He shows how a diverse collection of middle-class intellectuals, writers, politicians, educators, and bureaucrats forged a ""progressive"" nationalism and advanced an ambitious cultural-political project between the 1890s and 1940s. Together, reformers challenged the power of elite groups and sought to quell working-class revolutionary activism as ... Read more
A new framework for understanding Chile's cultural and political modernization Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role played by society's middle layers in the historical development of Latin America, Patrick Barr-Melej provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and its profound impact on that country's cultural and political landscapes. He shows how a diverse collection of middle-class intellectuals, writers, politicians, educators, and bureaucrats forged a ""progressive"" nationalism and advanced an ambitious cultural-political project between the 1890s and 1940s. Together, reformers challenged the power of elite groups and sought to quell working-class revolutionary activism as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807849194
SKU
V9780807849194
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About Patrick Barr-Melej
Patrick Barr-Melej has taught Latin American history at the University of California at Berkeley and at Saint Michael's College in Vermont.
Reviews for Reforming Chile
"An extremely interesting new angle on somewhat neglected period of Chilean history....Future scholars crossing this terrain will be absolutely obliged to take Barr-Melej's findings into account." - Simon Collier, Vanderbilt University"