The Right and Radical Right in the Americas

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Latin America has for decades resembled a vast terra incognita in Anglophone surveys of the radical and fascist right in the Europeanized world, most of which have remained overwhelmingly Euro- and US-centric. The Right and Radical Right in the Americas, written by an impressive team of experts on national politics, offers students of comparative politics a welcome basis for more accurate generalizations about 'the rise of the right'. In doing so it offers a valuable conceptual framework for the distinguishing between conservative, populist and extremist manifestations of resistance to secularization, multiculturalism and the globalized consumer society. -- Roger Griffin, author of The Nature of Fascism In this collection, contributors examine past and current manifestations of the right and radical right throughout the Americas, seeking to fill a gap in the literature, which is often centered on Europe. Each chapter explores the various manifestations of the right-e.g., Catholic nationalism in Mexico, the wave of authoritarian tendencies in the 1930s, and the 21st-century emergence of the extreme right in Chile-helping to contextualize the underlying motivations of and influences for the emergence of the right and the radical right. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals. * Choice Reviews *