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Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Latin America From the Wars of Independence to the Central American Civil Wars
Pedro Santoni
Book Code: GR3594
ISBN: 0-313-33594-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33594-5
360 pages, photos; table
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/2008
List Price: $65.00 (UK Sterling Price: £37.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: The countries of Latin America have suffered through numerous foreign interventions and domestic wars in the nearly two centuries that have followed its independence. These conflicts have also given rise to mass mobilizations of middle-class professionals, women, peasants, urban workers, and Indians, who sought to carve out a more active public role in the new states that emerged from these struggles. In some cases, elites and their military allies violently repressed the newly emerging forces. Recent research has begun to place greater emphasis on the lives of common people and the interventions they had on the larger events of the day. Eight chapters written by different scholars show the importance of the actions of civilians in wars in Latin America. Chapters describing civilians' roles and lives through wars in Latin America are supplemented by recommended print and online resources for further study, a glossary defining important terms and concepts, and a timeline putting events into a chronological context.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter One. Two Centuries of War in Latin America: An Overview
  • Pedro Santoni
  • Chapter Two. Death, Destiny, and the Daily Chores: Everyday Spanish America during the Wars of Independence (1806-1826)
  • Karen Racine
  • Chapter 3. The Civilian Experience in Mexico during the War with the United States (1846-1848)
  • Pedro Santoni
  • Chapter 4. Civilians and Civil War in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Mexico City and the War of the Reform (1858-1861)
  • Daniel S. Haworth
  • Chapter 5. The Brazilian Home Front during the War the Triple Alliance (1864-1870)
  • Vitor Izecksohn and Peter M. Beattie
  • Chapter 6. Civilians and the War of the Pacific (1879-1884)
  • Bruce W. Farcau
  • Chapter 7. No vamos a la Revolucin! Civilians as Revolucionarios and Revolucionados in the 1910 Mexican Revolution
  • John Lear
  • Chapter 8. Reading Revolution from Below: Cuba (1933 and 1959)
  • Gillian McGillivray
  • Chapter 9. Repression and Resistance, Hatred and Hope: Military Dictatorships and Civilian Life in South America (1964-1990)
  • Margaret Power
  • Chapter 10. And the Storm Raged On: The Daily Experience of Terror during the Central American Civil Wars (1966-1990)
  • Arturo Arias
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editor and Contributors
LC Card Number: 2008019220
LCC Class: F1408
Dewey Class: 980
PDF Catalogs:
Academic Library Fall 2008.pdf
Greenwood History Spring 2008.pdf
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