TY - BOOK AU - Waisman,Carlos Horacio TI - Reversal of Development in Argentina: Postwar Counterrevolutionary Policies and Their Structural Consequences T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9780691604565 PY - 2014///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Tables --; Preface --; 1. The Argentine Riddle and Sociology of Development --; 2. Is Argentina a Deviant Case? Resource Endowments, Development, and Democracy in Sociological Theory --; 3. Images and Facts: Argentina Against the New Country and Latin American Mirrors --; 4. In Search of Argentina: The Adequacy of Various Factors for the Explanation of the Reversal --; 5. Why the State Became Autonomous in the Forties --; 6. The Primacy of Politics: The Question of Revolution in the Forties --; 7. Social Integration and the Inordinate Fear of Communism --; 8. The Disadvantages of Modernity --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Carlos Waisman has pinpointed the specific beliefs that led the Peronists unwittingly to transform their country from a relatively prosperous land of recent settlement, like Australia and Canada, to an impoverished and underdeveloped society resembling the rest of Latin America.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400858859 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400858859 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400858859.jpg ER -