The Economic and Political History Podcast | 8 March 2025 | 0h 48m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Luis Schenoni about his book Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Discusses Latin American state formation and varying state capacity, refining Charles Tilly’s claim that “war made the state” by showing the effect of war outcomes. Victorious states legitimise wartime institutions, consolidating state capacity, while defeated states suffer lasting decline.