Latin America's Middle Class: Unsettled Debates and New Histories

ISBN 10: 0739168533 / ISBN 13: 9780739168530

Editore: Lexington Books, 2012

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Designed for classroom use and nonspecialist readers, this collection brings together some of the most influential texts ever written about Latin America's middle class. Part One covers key debates in the 1950s and 1960s, when academics and policy-makers questioned whether Latin America's emerging "middle sectors" would foster democracy, development, and stability. Case studies in Part Two show how those older questions are both answered and challenged by today's social and cultural historical approaches.

Informazioni sugli autori: David S. Parker is associate professor of history and former Chair of the History Department at Queen's University, Canada. He is author of The Idea of the Middle Class: White-Collar Workers and Peruvian Society, 1900-1950 (1998), and articles or book chapters on topics ranging from public health reform to images of social climbers in Chilean fiction to dueling among journalists and politicians in Uruguay.

Louise E. Walker is assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in Boston. She is the author of Waking from the Dream: Mexico's Middle Classes after 1968 (2012). She is currently coediting a special dossier on Mexico's recently declassified secret police archive for the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (2013, with Tanalís Padilla). Her research projects also include the history of conspiracy theories.

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Titolo: Latin America's Middle Class: Unsettled ...
Casa editrice: Lexington Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2012
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: New