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State Building in Latin America diverges from existing scholarship in developing explanations both for why state-building efforts in the region emerged and for

A comparative study of state formation in 19th-century Latin America that examines the different social and political paths that have led to democracy or milita

This book traces the impact of exile in the formation of independent republics in Chile and the Río de la Plata in the decades after independence. Exile was ce

The major issues addressed include the relationships between institution-building and state formation; between the university and the development of a national

What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war.