Conscription Reform in Peru in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. The application of the Compulsory Military Service Act of 1898

Authors

  • David Víctor Velásquez Silva Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.35.2019.8

Keywords:

Compulsory military service, Peruvian Army, conscription, military reform.
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Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the reform of the conscription that occurred in Peru in the early twentieth century with the application of the Military Service Act 1898. Our proposal is that although the application of the law modified the old nineteenth-century practices of compulsive or negotiated constitution of the caudillistas armies, it could not be fulfilled with total strictness due to the administrative and coercive limitations of the State and the resistance of diverse social groups. Even so, the norm allowed the constitution of large military units in a bureaucratic and centralized manner.

Author Biography

David Víctor Velásquez Silva, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos – Lima, Perú

How to Cite

Velásquez Silva, D. V. (2019). Conscription Reform in Peru in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. The application of the Compulsory Military Service Act of 1898. Historia Caribe, 14(35), 213–246. https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.35.2019.8

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Published

2019-07-01

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 35 (2019): Julio-Diciembre

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© Universidad del Atlántico. Los originales publicados en las ediciones impresa y electrónica de Historia Caribe, ISSN 0122-8803 e-ISSN 2322-6889, son propiedad de la Universidad del Atlántico, siendo necesario citar la procedencia en cualquier reproducción parcial o total.

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