Formation
Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740
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Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its emerging economic interests, intentionally brought racial slavery to Virginia. Parent bases his argument on three historical developments: the exp… More >>
Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740
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State Formation and Democracy in Latin America, 1810–1900
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Despite a shared colonial past, South American nations experienced different patterns of conflict in the nineteenth century. These differences led to the creation of a variety of states and regimes, from authoritarian military oligarchies to popular democracies. Using a rigorous logic of comparison, Fernando López-Alves explores the roots of state building in five countries and explains why the political systems of these early postindependent societies were prone t… More >>
State Formation and Democracy in Latin America, 1810–1900
Tags: 1810–1900, America, democracies, Democracy, democracy in latin america, Formation, Latin, nineteenth century, oligarchies, postindependent, regimes, roots, State, state formationRelated posts