San Antonio College Library

"Provides a systematic comparative history of the rise and ultimate demise of the oligarchies that dominated Latin America for nearly a century"--Provided by publisher. "In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, a new class--the oligarchy--consolidated its wealth and political power in Latin America. Its members were the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, and bankers who were growing rich in a rapidly...