Modernization, dislocation, and Aprismo : origins of the Peruvian Aprista Party, 1870-1932

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Modernization, dislocation, and Aprismo : origins of the Peruvian Aprista Party, 1870-1932

by Peter F. Klarén

(Latin American monographs / Institute of Latin American Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, no. 32)

Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies by the University of Texas Press, c1973

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Bibliography: p. [163]-178

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Since its founding in 1930 the Peruvian Aprista party (APRA) has occupied a place of signal importance in the Peruvian political spectrum, and it is one of the most important political parties to appear in twentieth-century Latin America. Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo is the first major analysis of the social and political bases of the Aprista movement. Previous studies of APRA had been chiefly descriptive in nature and did not utilize modern social science approaches in analyzing the movement.Peter F. Klaren's major thesis is that APRA emerged in the 1930s as a direct political response to the far-reaching dislocative impact of modernization within the Peruvian sugar industry, a process that unfolded over a period of about four decades beginning in the 1890s and that substantially upset and transformed the traditional structure of society along the north coast.Jolted by the effects of modernization, elements of the old middle and lower sectors grew increasingly hostile to the existing order. Joined by the new proletariat that was beginning to voice its collective grievances by means of the unionization process, this large, alienated segment of northern society responded overwhelmingly in 1931 to the reformist appeal of the new Aprista party. APRA, many of whose leaders were products of this environment, best expressed politically the general mood of alienation and rebellion of the area's discontented. The eruption of the bloody and abortive Trujillo Revolution of 1932 is considered as the culmination of this process of social and economic dislocation.In addition to presenting a major new interpretation of the origins of the Aprista movement, this study places the Aprista party in the larger Latin American context by comparing APRA with other political movements in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Cuba that were responding to similar modernization phenomena.This study is based not only on a large body of official party literature and local newspapers for the period, but also on the newly discovered records of the Archivo de la Camara de Comercio, Agricultura e Industria of the Department of La Libertad for the years 1904-1932."

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  • NCID
    BA22767871
  • ISBN
    • 0292760019
  • LCCN
    73004915
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Austin
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxiii, 189 p
  • Size
    24 cm
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