Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Bringing War Back In provides a fresh theory connecting war and state formation that incorporates the contingency of warfare and the effects of war outcomes in the long run. The book demonstrates that international wars in nineteenth-century Latin America triggered state-building, that the outcomes of those wars affected the legitimacy and continuity of such efforts, and that the relative capacity of states in this region today continues to reflect those distant processes. Combining comparative historical analysis with cutting edge social science methods, the book provides a comprehensive picture of state formation in nineteenth-century Latin America that is compelling for readers across disciplines, breathes new life into bellicist approaches to state formation, and offers a novel framework to explain variation in state capacity across Latin America and the world.
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Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Bringing War Back In provides a fresh theory connecting war and state formation that incorporates the contingency of warfare and the effects of war outcomes in the long run. The book demonstrates that international wars in nineteenth-century Latin America triggered state-building, that the outcomes of those wars affected the legitimacy and continuity of such efforts, and that the relative capacity of states in this region today continues to reflect those distant processes. Combining comparative historical analysis with cutting edge social science methods, the book provides a comprehensive picture of state formation in nineteenth-century Latin America that is compelling for readers across disciplines, breathes new life into bellicist approaches to state formation, and offers a novel framework to explain variation in state capacity across Latin America and the world.
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Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

by Luis L. Schenoni
Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
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Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

by Luis L. Schenoni

Overview

Bringing War Back In provides a fresh theory connecting war and state formation that incorporates the contingency of warfare and the effects of war outcomes in the long run. The book demonstrates that international wars in nineteenth-century Latin America triggered state-building, that the outcomes of those wars affected the legitimacy and continuity of such efforts, and that the relative capacity of states in this region today continues to reflect those distant processes. Combining comparative historical analysis with cutting edge social science methods, the book provides a comprehensive picture of state formation in nineteenth-century Latin America that is compelling for readers across disciplines, breathes new life into bellicist approaches to state formation, and offers a novel framework to explain variation in state capacity across Latin America and the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781009442138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/31/2024
Pages: 343
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

Luis L. Schenoni is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and Director of the Security Studies Programme at the Department of Political Science, University College London. His work on war and the state has been published, among others, by the American Journal of Political Science.

Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. Puzzle and Argument: 1. Overview; 2. Classical Bellicist Theory; 3. Blood and Debt in Europe and Latin America; Part II. Regionwide Analyses: 4. Preparation for War and Mobilization; 5. War Outcomes and State Building; 6. The State Capacity Ranking c.1900; Part III. Case Studies: 7. War and State in the River Plate; 8. War and State in the Pacific; 9. War and State in Mexico and Central America; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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