Hispanic Technocracy Kressel Hardback Cambridge University Press 9781009603041

Hispanic TechnocracyFrom Fascism to Catholic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and Chile, 19451991\nAuthor(s): Daniel Gunnar Kressel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009603041, 978-1009603041\nSynopsis\nHispanic Technocracy explores the emergence, zenith, and demise of a distinctive post-fascist school of thought that materialized as state ideology during the Cold War in three military regimes: Francisco Franco's Spain [tel], Juan Carlos Ongana's Argentina [tel], and Augusto Pinochet's Chile [tel]. In this intellectual and cultural history, Daniel Gunnar Kressel examines how Francoist Spain replaced its fascist ideology with an early neoliberal economic model. With the Catholic society Opus Dei at its helm amid its 'economic miracle' of the 1960s, it fostered a modernity that was 'European in the means' and 'Hispanic in the ends.' Kressel illuminates how a transatlantic network of ideologue.