This essay views nineteenth-century Latin American politics through
the lens of kinship deemphasizing individuals, political organizations, and in
stitutions. Politics is observed through the activities of families and the family
itself is seen as the fundamental enterprise rather than the family hacienda
(landed estate) or commercial exporting business. With this perspective, the
family can be seen expanding from an urban enterprise to an urban-rural one;
extending its authority through political posts obtained in the city (military com
manders, justices of the peace in areas of their rural estates). The spatial com
ponents of political power—local to regional to national—are also revealed by
observing families as they attempt through marriage, political office, and trans
portation investments to extend their reach to a national level.
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