Ilan Rachum has lectured on Latin American and early modern European history at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). His publications in Hebrew comprise a concise history of Brazil, a survey of Latin America in the twentieth century, and a history of imperial Spain (co-authored with the late Fred Bronner). His books also include The Renaissance: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (1979) and "Revolution": The Entrance of a New Word into Western Political Discourse (1999), in addition to numerous articles in scholarly journals.

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• ForewordPlacing October 1930 in Its Latin American ContextThe Old Republic: Structures and ValuesCultural Change and the Undermining of HierarchiesAlberto Torres: A Critic of His NationWhen Artists Launch a Struggle for Modern ValuesViolent Protests of Inarticulate Young OfficersA Notable Addition: The Urban OppositionsA Shift in the Evaluation of National IssuesTwo Years of Revolutionary EffervescenceA Revolution? Yes, but Not the One PromisedA long and Tortuous AftermathBibliographyIndex

Ilan Rachum has lectured on Latin American and early modern European history at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). His publications in Hebrew comprise a concise history of Brazil, a survey of Latin America in the twentieth century, and a history of imperial Spain (co-authored with the late Fred Bronner). His books also include The Renaissance: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (1979) and "Revolution": The Entrance of a New Word into Western Political Discourse (1999), in addition to numerous articles in scholarly journals.

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• ForewordPlacing October 1930 in Its Latin American ContextThe Old Republic: Structures and ValuesCultural Change and the Undermining of HierarchiesAlberto Torres: A Critic of His NationWhen Artists Launch a Struggle for Modern ValuesViolent Protests of Inarticulate Young OfficersA Notable Addition: The Urban OppositionsA Shift in the Evaluation of National IssuesTwo Years of Revolutionary EffervescenceA Revolution? Yes, but Not the One PromisedA long and Tortuous AftermathBibliographyIndex

Ilan Rachum has lectured on Latin American and early modern European history at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). His publications in Hebrew comprise a concise history of Brazil, a survey of Latin America in the twentieth century, and a history of imperial Spain (co-authored with the late Fred Bronner). His books also include The Renaissance: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (1979) and "Revolution": The Entrance of a New Word into Western Political Discourse (1999), in addition to numerous articles in scholarly journals.

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• ForewordPlacing October 1930 in Its Latin American ContextThe Old Republic: Structures and ValuesCultural Change and the Undermining of HierarchiesAlberto Torres: A Critic of His NationWhen Artists Launch a Struggle for Modern ValuesViolent Protests of Inarticulate Young OfficersA Notable Addition: The Urban OppositionsA Shift in the Evaluation of National IssuesTwo Years of Revolutionary EffervescenceA Revolution? Yes, but Not the One PromisedA long and Tortuous AftermathBibliographyIndex