Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-217) and index.
Contents
The early setting -- Anarchism, socialism, revolutionary nationalism : the impact of the Mexican and Russian revolutions -- The military and corporatist onslaught : from the thirties to the second world war -- The postwar dawn : populism and its transformations -- The sixties and seventies : from revolution to military intervention -- The central American and Caribbean cauldron -- The workings of democracy : from the eighties to the new century -- Continuity and change in Latin American party systems.