Volume 14, Number 10 · May 21, 1970
What's New in Peru
By E.J. Hobsbawm
The Unrevolutionary Society: The Power of Latin American Conservatism in a Changing World
by John Mander
Knopf, 331 pp., $6.95
The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective
by Stanley J. Stein, by Barbara H. Stein
Oxford, 222 pp., $5.00
Pressure Groups and Power Elites in Peruvian Politics
by Carlos A. Astiz
Cornell, 316 pp., $12.00
Politics in the Altiplano: The Dynamics of Change in Rural Peru
by Edward Dew
Texas, 216 pp., $6.00
Peru 1965: Notes on a Guerrilla Experience
by Hector Béjar
Monthly Review, 142 pp., $6.00
For the past ten years writing about Latin America has been one of the growth industries of literature. The immediate stimulus for this growth was Fidel Castro, who transformed the traditional gringo view of what a Latin American revolution was supposed to be, and with it also the conventional European view that what happened south of the Rio Grande was politically negligible to the rest of the world. Latin America ceased to be an object of history and became a subject. As it did not immediately erupt into general social revolution, and no longer posed significant problems of constitutional decolonization—most of it has long been politically independent though economically colonial—there has recently been a tendency to assume that it was all a false alarm. John Mander calls his new book The Unrevolutionary Society, and stresses 'the power of Latin American conservatism in a changing world.' Another of the authors under review, Carlos Astiz, concludes with the statement that
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