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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Central America and the Caribbean
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton :
Routledge,
1984.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; PART 1. Structural and Institutional Sources of Stability and Instability; 1 Ten Theories in Search of Central American Reality; (1) The Theory of Economic Development: Competitive Exclusion and Rural-Urban Underemployment; (2) Demographic Theory: The Population Explosion; (3) Psychoeconomic Theory: Relative Deprivation, Rising Expectations, and Economic Crisis; (4) The Theory of Political Development: Structural Petrification and Political Decay
- (5) Elites and Interest Groups: Liberation Theologians, Reactionary Despots, and Revolutionary Zealots(6) The Theory of Process: Reform, Repression, and the Dialectic of Revolution; (7) The Domino Theory: Foreign Communist Aggression or Mutual Escalation?; (8) Theories of Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism: Is Nicaragua ""Another Cuba""?; (9) The United States as a Destabilizing Force: The Strategy of Conflict and the Politics of Counterproductivity; (10) The Quagmire Thesis: The Internationalization and Regionalization of Conflict
- The United States and Central America: On Illusions, Realities, and No-Win SituationsNotes; 2 The United States and the Caribbean Basin in Historical Perspective; The United States and the Caribbean Basin in the Nineteenth Century; The Era of Imperialism; The Era of Hegemony; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Autumn of the Oligarchs; The Antecedents; Independence; The Century of the Oligarchs: 1880-1980; The Challenge of the Depression; The Modern Period: Imposing the Impossible, 1944-84; New Structures; The Turning Point; Conclusion; Notes
- 4 Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Central American ChurchThe Women; The Awakening; The Investigation; Revolution and the Church; El Salvador; Nicaragua; Guatemala; Notes; 5 The Economic Dimensions of Instability and Decline in Central America and the Caribbean; Historical Legacy and Important Regional Contrasts; The Empirical Record: Two Decades of Growth and Decline; Economic Change and Policy Response: Evidence and Issues; The Basic Needs Dimension and Agriculture; Summary and Conclusions: Domestic Policy Reforms and the Limitations of Extensive Foreign Aid; Notes
- PART 2. Stability and Instability: A Country Focus6 El Salvador: Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Living Museum; Structural Petrification and the Crisis of ""Development"": The Socioeconomic Dimension; Structural Petrification and the Crisis of ""Development"": The Political Dimension; Structural Petrification and the Dialectic of Revolution: The Disintegration of the Living Museum; The Politics of Reform and the Structure of Counterrevolution; Repression with Reform; The Opposition: The Struggle for Unity and Power; The ""Final Offensive"": Prelude to Showdown