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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Blood and Debt: War and Taxation in Nineteenth‐Century Latin America1
Contributor:
Centeno, Miguel Angel
Published:
The University of Chicago Press, 1997
Published in:
American Journal of Sociology, 102 (1997) 6, Seite 1565-1605
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1086/231127
ISSN:
0002-9602;
1537-5390
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
Using data from 11 Latin American countries, this article challenges the universality of the positive relationship between war and state making. Availability of external resources, state organizational capacity, and alliances with social actors are shown to help determine the political response to armed conflict. Overall, the article emphasizes the importance of causal sequence in determining the effect of war. War did not make states in Latin America because it occurred under very different historical circumstances than during the European “military revolution.” Without the prior establishment of political authority and without a link between such an organization and social actors, war will not contribute to institutional development.