Ideologues and Ideologies in Latin America

The chapters in this volume provide a varied yet consistent analysis of the ways in which ideologies have been used misused or abandoned in Latin America in the twentieth century. The volume offers scholars and students a challenging collection of interpretations of and explanations for the ways in which ideologues and ideologies have played a crucial role in the political development of the continent. And while illuminating key reasons for the rise and fall of specific ideologies and their repeated betrayal throughout the centuryfrom anarchism to communism to socialism to Peronism to neoliberalismthe volume indicates how much there is still left to learn about the importance of ideological discourse in the mind and polity of Latin America. With chapters examining Mexico Chile Cuba Paraguay and Argentina this work will be of interest to all Latin Americanists.