Intro; Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: The Emergence of a Landlord Consciousness, 1860-1880; Landowners and their leaders: the Sociedad Rural Argentina; Argentine elites and landownership; The political transformations of the 1880s; 2: The Making of a New Landed Class, 1880-1912; The transformations of livestock farming in the 1880s; The transformation of the ""estancieros; Crisis and consolidation; 3: The Landowners' Entry Into Politics, 1890-1912; The Union Provincial; Industrial development and the tariff question; The Defensa Rural
4: The Troubled Decades, 1912-1930The emergence of social conflicton the pampas; Democracy on trial; Transformation of the meat market and conflicts among the ""estancieros; 5: The Landowners From the Great Depression to the Rise of Peronism, 1930-1945; An embattled elite; Response to the Great Depression: bilateralism, industrial growth, and the development of a more cohesive business elite; A quiescent countryside; The end of the old landed order: reform from above; Conclusion: Landowners in Perspective; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Roy Hora develops a historically based view of how socio-economic and political change affected Argentina's wealthy landowners and was in turn affected by them between the 1860s and 1940s
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-258) and index
