Armies without nations : public violence and state formation in Central America, 1821-1960 /

Public violence, scarcely analyzed and little understood, is the subject of this pathbreaking research into the histories of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Robert Holden shows how the national and international dimensions of public violence intersected there to produce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holden, Robert H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Temas:
Political violence > Central America > History.
State-sponsored terrorism > Central America > History.
Violence politique > Amérique centrale > Histoire.
Terrorisme d'État > Amérique centrale > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Politics and government
Political violence
State-sponsored terrorism
Central America > Politics and government.
Amérique centrale > Politique et gouvernement.
Central America
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1 : 1821-1939. Historical dimensions of public violence in Latin America
  • Binding hatreds : public violence, state, and nation in Central American history
  • Guatemala : organizing for war
  • El Salvador : a democracy of violence
  • Honduras : caudillos in search of an army
  • Nicaragua : a new army finds its caudillo
  • Costa Rica : caudillos in search of a state
  • Part 2 : 1940-1960. Transformations
  • Defining collaboration : the United States and Central America
  • Guatemala : "Showcase of Latin America"
  • El Salvador : distrustful collaborator
  • Honduras : remaking an "armed rabble"
  • Nicaragua : "Ready to receive orders from Uncle Sam"
  • Costa Rica : an army renamed
  • Conclusions
  • Statistical appendix
  • Notes.

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