Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. The Incubus of Doctrine
The Discourse of Counterrevolution
De Maistre, Menendez Pelayo, and Others
Other Authorities: Renan, Taine, and Maurras
The Ideological Synthesis in Argentina
2. The Threads of Tradition
The Seeds of Clericalism
The Traditionalists
3· Rule by the Capable
The Nativist Reaction
The Impact of War
The Assault on Popular Democracy
4· The Nationalist Crusade
The Right to Good Government
Structure and Personalities
Clericalists, Jews, and Fascists
Social Justice and Anti-Imperialism
Ideological Cross- Fertilizations
5· The Nationalist Revolution
The Ascent of the Nationalists
Social Justice and Peron
The Transitions of Peron
6. Peron and After
The Confrontation with Peron
Peron and the Church
From Lonardi to Illia
7· Authoritarians, Populists, and Revolutionaries
The Doctrine of National Security and the "Argentine Revolution"
The Armed Bands
The Populist Resurgence
The Montoneros
The Process of National Reorganization
The Nationalist Legacy
8. Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
 

About the Author

David Rock is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Politics in Argentina, 1690-1930: The Rise and Fall of Radicalism (1975) and Argentina 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsin (California, 1987).

Reviews

"This book should be required reading for students of nationalism and the Latin American Right. It is well written and argued, carefully balancing close historical detail with broad genealogy."--Jeremy Adelman, "Hispanic American Historical Review