| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Translator's Foreword to the Encore Edition -- Translator's Foreword to the First Edition -- Preface to the Encore Edition -- Introduction -- Power Relationships in the Audiencia of Quito: 1533-1820 -- Social, Economic, and Political Organization in the Audiencia of Quito -- Power and Domination in Colonial Quito -- Colonial Dependence, Social Conflict, and the Break with Spain -- The Structure of Power in Ecuador During the Republican Period: 1820-1949 -- Hacienda Society in Republican Ecuador: Rural Aristocracy and Ancillary Institutions -- External Factors: Economic and Politicocultural Dependency in Republican Ecuador -- Political Conflict I: The Liberal-Conservative Two-Party System -- Political Conflict II: Personality and Power in Ecuadorean Politics -- The Crisis of Power in Contemporary Ecuador: 1950-79 -- Capitalist Development and Political Crisis -- Urban Growth and Populism -- Ideological Reformism and Political Radicalization -- Workers and Students -- The Military and The Church -- Ecuador in the Petroleum Era: New Forms of Dependency -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
This book is a study of politics and the changing configuration of power in a developing country in which political domination during the past 155 years has almost without exception coincided with economic hegemony |
| Notes |
"A Westwood encore edition." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Osvaldo Hurtado, Nick D. Mills |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 17, 2023) |
| Subject |
Elite (Social sciences) -- Ecuador
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Power (Social sciences)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Economic history
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Politics and government
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Power (Social sciences)
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Ecuador -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040915
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Ecuador -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040900
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Ecuador -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Ecuador
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mills, Nick D., translator.
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| ISBN |
9780429302268 |
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0429302266 |
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9781000235418 |
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1000235416 |
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9781000307290 |
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1000307298 |
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9781000271355 |
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1000271358 |
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