Blood and Debt: War and Taxation in Nineteenth‐Century Latin America
- 1 May 1997
- journal article
- review article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in American Journal of Sociology
- Vol. 102 (6) , 1565-1605
- https://doi.org/10.1086/231127
Abstract
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.This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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