Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-245) and index.
1. Caudillos, Provincial Elites, and the Formation of the National State -- 2. Unitarians and Federalists in Famatina: The Agrarian Component of Political Conflict in a Valley of the Andean Interior -- 3. The Society of the Llanos -- 4. Gauchos, Montoneros, and Montoneras: Social Profile and Internal Workings of the Rebellions -- 5. Caudillos and Followers: The Forms of a Relationship -- 6. Facundo and Chacho in Songs and Stories: Oral Culture and Representations of Leadership -- 7. Whites and Blacks, Masons and Christians: Ethnicity and Religion in the Political Identity of the Federalist Rebels -- 8. State Formation and Party Identity: The New Meanings of Federalism in the 1860s -- 9. The Vanishing of Federalism