Stories of Civil War in El Salvador : A Battle over Memory /

El Salvador's civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later. It saw extreme violence on both sides, including the terrorizing and targeting of civilians by death squads, recruitment of child soldiers, and the death and disappearance of more than 75,000 people. Examining El Salvado...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ching, Erik Kristofer (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social classes > El Salvador.
Group identity > El Salvador.
Collective memory > El Salvador.
El Salvador > History > 1979-1992.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Setting the stage : El Salvador's long twentieth century
  • The aggrieved minority : civilian elites
  • The republic will live as long as the army lives : military officers
  • The awakening : guerrilla comandantes before the civil war
  • The reckoning : guerrilla comandantes during and after the civil war
  • Orders are orders : the rank and file
  • Conclusion.

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