"The intellectual origins of this book lie in an interdisciplinary seminar on Latin America and the Caribbean ... at Northwestern University"--Page vii
Landlord and campesino in the Chilean road to democracy / Arnold J. Bauer -- The Buenos Aires landed class and the shape of Argentine politics (1820-1930) / Tulio Halperín Donghi -- Authoritarianism, political culture, and the formation of the state : landowners, agrarian movements, and the making of national politics in nineteenth-century Mexico and Peru / Florencia E. Mallon -- Agrarian systems and the state : the case of Colombia / Frank Safford -- Lord and peasant in the making of modern Central America / Lowell Gudmundson -- Applying Moore's model to Latin America : some historians' observations / Frank Safford -- Conclusion : Agrarian structure and political power in comparative perspective / Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens