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.

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