Table of Contents

Translator's Foreword to the Encore Edition — Translator's Foreword to the First Edition — Preface to the Encore Edition — Introduction — Power Relationships in the Audiencia of Quito: 1533–1820 — Social, Economic, and Political Organization in the Audiencia of Quito — Power and Domination in Colonial Quito — Colonial Dependence, Social Conflict, and the Break with Spain — The Structure of Power in Ecuador During the Republican Period: 1820–1949 — Hacienda Society in Republican Ecuador: Rural Aristocracy and Ancillary Institutions — External Factors: Economic and Politicocultural Dependency in Republican Ecuador — Political Conflict I: The Liberal-Conservative Two-Party System — Political Conflict II: Personality and Power in Ecuadorean Politics — The Crisis of Power in Contemporary Ecuador: 1950–79 — Capitalist Development and Political Crisis — Urban Growth and Populism — Ideological Reformism and Political Radicalization — Workers and Students — The Military and The Church — Ecuador in the Petroleum Era: New Forms of Dependency — Epilogue