Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

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Winner of four book awards, this study marks a Copernican turn in our understanding of development in Latin America by revealing how nineteenth-century warfare systematically spurred state building in the region, and how victory and defeat set states on divergent paths of state capacity.