Pike, Fredrick B.
Spanish America,1900-1970 Tradition & Social Innovation Fredrick B. Pike - New York W. W. Norton & Co. 1973 - 180 p.
Contents:
Turn-of-the-Century Spanish America: Traditional Society and a Revolutionary Challenge
Ideology: The Challenge to and Defence of the Traditional Society
Social and Economic Factors in Preserving the Traditional Society
Social Revolution and the Traditional Society I: The Case of Mexico
Social Revolution and The Traditional Society II: The Case of Bolivia
Preserving the Traditional Society Through Major Innovations I: The Case of Venezuela
Preserving the Traditional Society Through Major Innovations II: The Case of Uruguay
Preserving the Traditional Society Through Minor Innovations I: Chile Until the 1960s
Preserving the Traditional Society Through Minor Innovations II: Peru Until the 1960s
Aborted Revolution and a Reprieve for the Traditional Society I: The Case of Argentina
Aborted Revolution and a Reprieve for the Traditional Society II: The Case of Colombia
Contemporary Spanish America: New Challenges to Tradition
Castro's Cuba and the Response to New Challenges
The Peruvian Military and the Response to New Challenges
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
For generations Spanish American national leaders have successfully preserved the established social order against the multiple forces of change. In this valuable study of Spanish America in the twentieth century, Professor Pike argues that different countries have employed varying methods to maintain the traditional two-culture society, made up of a dominant semi-capitalist elite, and, beneath it, a massive dependent sub-culture. In Bolivia and Mexico measures of social paternalism gained the quiescence of the masses. Minor changes in the political system (in Chile and Peru) and more radical innovations (in Venezuela and Uruguay) were sufficient to maintain the traditional society, whereas in Argentina and Colombia the status quo was only restored after the opening stages of a social revolution. Only in Cuba did the old order collapse, undermined by middle-class alienation and mass discontent, and, for the first time in the history of Spanish America, a society radically different from the traditional one emerged
0393054888
Social Conditions--Latin America--Social Classes
301.24098 Pik 9
Spanish America,1900-1970 Tradition & Social Innovation Fredrick B. Pike - New York W. W. Norton & Co. 1973 - 180 p.
Contents:
Turn-of-the-Century Spanish America: Traditional Society and a Revolutionary Challenge
Ideology: The Challenge to and Defence of the Traditional Society
Social and Economic Factors in Preserving the Traditional Society
Social Revolution and the Traditional Society I: The Case of Mexico
Social Revolution and The Traditional Society II: The Case of Bolivia
Preserving the Traditional Society Through Major Innovations I: The Case of Venezuela
Preserving the Traditional Society Through Major Innovations II: The Case of Uruguay
Preserving the Traditional Society Through Minor Innovations I: Chile Until the 1960s
Preserving the Traditional Society Through Minor Innovations II: Peru Until the 1960s
Aborted Revolution and a Reprieve for the Traditional Society I: The Case of Argentina
Aborted Revolution and a Reprieve for the Traditional Society II: The Case of Colombia
Contemporary Spanish America: New Challenges to Tradition
Castro's Cuba and the Response to New Challenges
The Peruvian Military and the Response to New Challenges
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
For generations Spanish American national leaders have successfully preserved the established social order against the multiple forces of change. In this valuable study of Spanish America in the twentieth century, Professor Pike argues that different countries have employed varying methods to maintain the traditional two-culture society, made up of a dominant semi-capitalist elite, and, beneath it, a massive dependent sub-culture. In Bolivia and Mexico measures of social paternalism gained the quiescence of the masses. Minor changes in the political system (in Chile and Peru) and more radical innovations (in Venezuela and Uruguay) were sufficient to maintain the traditional society, whereas in Argentina and Colombia the status quo was only restored after the opening stages of a social revolution. Only in Cuba did the old order collapse, undermined by middle-class alienation and mass discontent, and, for the first time in the history of Spanish America, a society radically different from the traditional one emerged
0393054888
Social Conditions--Latin America--Social Classes
301.24098 Pik 9