Doug Yarrington
Biographic Data
| ID | 703833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doug Yarrington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doug |
| FAMILY NAME | Yarrington |
| SIGNATURE | YARRINGTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Public Opinion and Modernity in Venezuela's Anti-Corruption Trials, 1945-8
This article explores the reasons why the most important anti-corruption campaign in twentieth-century Venezuela failed to win sustained support. Employing a constructivist approach to historical actors' understandings of corruption, it analyses the debates that erupted when the Acción Democrática (Democratic Action, AD) party prosecuted 167 former officials for illicit enrichment. The ensuing debate demonstrates that AD and its opponents disagre…
Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela . By Alejandro Velasco
Alejandro Velasco’s book is a political and social history of the poor and working class Caracas neighborhood known as “El 23 de enero” (January 23), a reference to the date when, in 1958, Venezuelans overthrew the dictator Marco Pérez Jiménez. Focusing primarily on the period between 1958 and the anti-austerity riots that erupted on February 27, 1989, Velasco examines the different ways that the residents engaged with the state, including electo…
La política petrolera venezolana: Una perspectiva histórica 1922/2005
In discussions of modern Venezuelan history, it is often stated (or assumed) that oil is everything. Petroleum, according to this interpretation, has fundamentally driven the nation's economic, political, social, and cultural evolution for almost a century. Even scholars who hesitate to embrace such a strong view of oil's historical primacy find it difficult to deny the role of petroleum in shaping Venezuela's most recent era. As observers across…
Tax Farming, Liquor, and the Quest for Fiscal Modernity in Venezuela, 1908-1935
The transition from tax farming to the direct bureaucratic administration of taxation, long recognized as a critical phase in the formation of centralized states, has received little consideration in studies of Latin America. Analysis of this fiscal transition can yield insights into Latin American state formation by focusing attention on the political and economic interests served or undermined by these two systems of administration. In Venezuel…
State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Republics of the Possible
This book is a significant and welcome addition to the literature on state formation. As is true of any ambitious collection of essays, it provides an opportunity to consider how scholarly treatment of a subject has evolved since the last landmark study in the field — in this case, since the publication of Everyday Forms of State Formation (1994), edited by Gilbert Joseph and Daniel Nugent. If that 20-year-old volume was notable for its argument …
The History of Venezuela
This volume forms part of a series that aims to provide “up-to-date, concise, and analytical histories of modern nations” (p. ix). The History of Venezuela, which moves from pre-Columbian times to the present in less than two hundred pages, is certainly fast paced and concise. And, with coverage of Hugo Chávez’s rise to power and his first six years as president, the book is one of the most current English-language surveys of Venezuelan history a…
Power and Culture: The Social History of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
The historiography of Latin American society has come to revolve largely around the themes of culture and power. In one form or another, the exercise of power within society has provided such a central theme in histories of the region for so long that its continued prominence hardly requires explanation. More innovative is the insistence—growing out of the "new cultural history" of Latin America—that power (along with many other phenomena) be vie…
Forthcoming in Volume 38 Number 2
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The Vestey Cattle Enterprise and the Regime of Juan Vicente Gómez, 1908-1935
This article seeks to expand our understanding of the dynamics of the Gómez regime and of its treatment of foreign investment by examining its relationship with a large British enterprise engaged in ranching and frozen meat exports. The company and the regime established mutually beneficial relationships during the First World War, but when the tighter market conditions of the post-war period obliged the company to restrict its purchases of cattl…
Cattle, Corruption, and Venezuelan State Formation During the Regime of Juan Vicente Gomez, 1908-1935
This essay seeks to expand our understanding of state formation in Venezuela by examining the business enterprises established by Juan Vicente Gómez and his political allies to exploit the agrarian economy, especially the cattle trade. It argues that these enterprises were critical both in cementing the allegiance of officials to Gómez, and in establishing the regime's authority over society. Venezue-lans engaged in a variety of forms of protest …
Populist Anxiety: Race and Social Change in the Thought of Romulo Gallegos
Novelist and statesman Rómulo Gallegos (1884-1969) played a key role in the emergence of Venezuelan populism, first by inscribing the populist rationale for change in a series of novels—most famously in Doña Bárbara (1929)—and later by lending his prestige to Acción Democrática (AD), the nation’s most successful populist party. A founding member of AD, Gallegos supported the coup that brought the party to power in 1945 and became the party’s stan…
A Coffee Frontier: Land, Society, and Politics in Duaca, Venezuela, 1830–1936
Public Land Settlement, Privatization, and Peasant Protest in Duaca, Venezuela, 1870-1936
in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was largely a frontier crop. Throughout the region, spread to land that had remained sparsely populated and economically marginal until the onset of export-led expansion in the nineteenth century.' In Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, the development of economies depended on migration to frontier regions and the settling of new territory. Nevertheless, as scholars have often…
Cattle, Corruption, and Venezuelan State Formation During the Regime of Juan Vicente Gomez, 1908-1935
This essay seeks to expand our understanding of state formation in Venezuela by examining the business enterprises established by Juan Vicente Gómez and his political allies to exploit the agrarian economy, especially the cattle trade. It argues that these enterprises were critical both in cementing the allegiance of officials to Gómez, and in establishing the regime's authority over society. Venezue-lans engaged in a variety of forms of protest …
Tax Farming, Liquor, and the Quest for Fiscal Modernity in Venezuela, 1908-1935
The transition from tax farming to the direct bureaucratic administration of taxation, long recognized as a critical phase in the formation of centralized states, has received little consideration in studies of Latin America. Analysis of this fiscal transition can yield insights into Latin American state formation by focusing attention on the political and economic interests served or undermined by these two systems of administration. In Venezuel…
Public Land Settlement, Privatization, and Peasant Protest in Duaca, Venezuela, 1870-1936
in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was largely a frontier crop. Throughout the region, spread to land that had remained sparsely populated and economically marginal until the onset of export-led expansion in the nineteenth century.' In Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, the development of economies depended on migration to frontier regions and the settling of new territory. Nevertheless, as scholars have often…
The Vestey Cattle Enterprise and the Regime of Juan Vicente Gómez, 1908-1935
This article seeks to expand our understanding of the dynamics of the Gómez regime and of its treatment of foreign investment by examining its relationship with a large British enterprise engaged in ranching and frozen meat exports. The company and the regime established mutually beneficial relationships during the First World War, but when the tighter market conditions of the post-war period obliged the company to restrict its purchases of cattl…
Populist Anxiety: Race and Social Change in the Thought of Romulo Gallegos
Novelist and statesman Rómulo Gallegos (1884-1969) played a key role in the emergence of Venezuelan populism, first by inscribing the populist rationale for change in a series of novels—most famously in Doña Bárbara (1929)—and later by lending his prestige to Acción Democrática (AD), the nation’s most successful populist party. A founding member of AD, Gallegos supported the coup that brought the party to power in 1945 and became the party’s stan…
Public Land Settlement, Privatization, and Peasant Protest in Duaca, Venezuela, 1870-1936
in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was largely a frontier crop. Throughout the region, spread to land that had remained sparsely populated and economically marginal until the onset of export-led expansion in the nineteenth century.' In Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, the development of economies depended on migration to frontier regions and the settling of new territory. Nevertheless, as scholars have often…
A Coffee Frontier: Land, Society, and Politics in Duaca, Venezuela, 1830–1936
Populist Anxiety: Race and Social Change in the Thought of Romulo Gallegos
Novelist and statesman Rómulo Gallegos (1884-1969) played a key role in the emergence of Venezuelan populism, first by inscribing the populist rationale for change in a series of novels—most famously in Doña Bárbara (1929)—and later by lending his prestige to Acción Democrática (AD), the nation’s most successful populist party. A founding member of AD, Gallegos supported the coup that brought the party to power in 1945 and became the party’s stan…
Power and Culture: The Social History of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
The historiography of Latin American society has come to revolve largely around the themes of culture and power. In one form or another, the exercise of power within society has provided such a central theme in histories of the region for so long that its continued prominence hardly requires explanation. More innovative is the insistence—growing out of the "new cultural history" of Latin America—that power (along with many other phenomena) be vie…
Forthcoming in Volume 38 Number 2
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Vestey Cattle Enterprise and the Regime of Juan Vicente Gómez, 1908-1935
This article seeks to expand our understanding of the dynamics of the Gómez regime and of its treatment of foreign investment by examining its relationship with a large British enterprise engaged in ranching and frozen meat exports. The company and the regime established mutually beneficial relationships during the First World War, but when the tighter market conditions of the post-war period obliged the company to restrict its purchases of cattl…
Cattle, Corruption, and Venezuelan State Formation During the Regime of Juan Vicente Gomez, 1908-1935
This essay seeks to expand our understanding of state formation in Venezuela by examining the business enterprises established by Juan Vicente Gómez and his political allies to exploit the agrarian economy, especially the cattle trade. It argues that these enterprises were critical both in cementing the allegiance of officials to Gómez, and in establishing the regime's authority over society. Venezue-lans engaged in a variety of forms of protest …
The History of Venezuela
This volume forms part of a series that aims to provide “up-to-date, concise, and analytical histories of modern nations” (p. ix). The History of Venezuela, which moves from pre-Columbian times to the present in less than two hundred pages, is certainly fast paced and concise. And, with coverage of Hugo Chávez’s rise to power and his first six years as president, the book is one of the most current English-language surveys of Venezuelan history a…
Tax Farming, Liquor, and the Quest for Fiscal Modernity in Venezuela, 1908-1935
The transition from tax farming to the direct bureaucratic administration of taxation, long recognized as a critical phase in the formation of centralized states, has received little consideration in studies of Latin America. Analysis of this fiscal transition can yield insights into Latin American state formation by focusing attention on the political and economic interests served or undermined by these two systems of administration. In Venezuel…
State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Republics of the Possible
This book is a significant and welcome addition to the literature on state formation. As is true of any ambitious collection of essays, it provides an opportunity to consider how scholarly treatment of a subject has evolved since the last landmark study in the field — in this case, since the publication of Everyday Forms of State Formation (1994), edited by Gilbert Joseph and Daniel Nugent. If that 20-year-old volume was notable for its argument …
Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela . By Alejandro Velasco
Alejandro Velasco’s book is a political and social history of the poor and working class Caracas neighborhood known as “El 23 de enero” (January 23), a reference to the date when, in 1958, Venezuelans overthrew the dictator Marco Pérez Jiménez. Focusing primarily on the period between 1958 and the anti-austerity riots that erupted on February 27, 1989, Velasco examines the different ways that the residents engaged with the state, including electo…
La política petrolera venezolana: Una perspectiva histórica 1922/2005
In discussions of modern Venezuelan history, it is often stated (or assumed) that oil is everything. Petroleum, according to this interpretation, has fundamentally driven the nation's economic, political, social, and cultural evolution for almost a century. Even scholars who hesitate to embrace such a strong view of oil's historical primacy find it difficult to deny the role of petroleum in shaping Venezuela's most recent era. As observers across…
Public Opinion and Modernity in Venezuela's Anti-Corruption Trials, 1945-8
This article explores the reasons why the most important anti-corruption campaign in twentieth-century Venezuela failed to win sustained support. Employing a constructivist approach to historical actors' understandings of corruption, it analyses the debates that erupted when the Acción Democrática (Democratic Action, AD) party prosecuted 167 former officials for illicit enrichment. The ensuing debate demonstrates that AD and its opponents disagre…
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