Subject: Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism

Subject: Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism

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Transformations and Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina, 1930–1955

|9780822962038| Nállim chronicles the decline of liberalism in Argentina during the volatile period between two military coups—the 1930 overthrow of Hipólito Yrigoyen and the deposing of Juan Perón in 1955. While historians have primarily focused on liberalism in economic or political contexts, Nállim instead documents a wide range of locations where liberalism was claimed and ultimately marginalized in the pursuit of individual agendas. Nállim shows how concepts of liberalism were espoused by various groups who “invented traditions” to legitimatize their methods of political, religious, class, intellectual, or cultural hegemony. In these deeply fractured and corrupt processes, liberalism lost political favor…

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