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A Century of Revolution – Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America′s Long Cold War

Autor Gilbert M. Joseph, Greg Grandin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 oct 2010
Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to "A Century of Revolution," Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion, and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have tended to take them for granted, leaving unexamined important questions regarding their form and meaning. The essays in this groundbreaking collection take up these questions, providing a sociologically and historically nuanced view of the ideological hardening and accelerated polarization that marked Latin America s twentieth century. Attentive to the interplay among overlapping local, regional, national, and international fields of power, the contributors focus on the dialectical relations between revolutionary and counterrevolutionary processes and their unfolding in the context of U.S. hemispheric and global hegemony. Through their fine-grained analyses of events in Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru, they suggest a framework for interpreting the experiential nature of political violence while also analyzing its historical causes and consequences. In so doing, they set a new agenda for the study of revolutionary change and political violence in twentieth-century Latin America. Contributors
Michelle Chase
Jeffrey L. Gould
Greg Grandin
Lillian Guerra
Forrest Hylton
Gilbert M. Joseph
Friedrich Katz
Thomas Miller Klubock
Neil Larsen
Arno J. Mayer
Carlota McAllister
Jocelyn Olcott
Gerardo Renique
Corey Robin
Peter Winn"
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822347378
ISBN-10: 0822347377
Pagini: 456
Ilustrații: 17 illustrations, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 167 x 233 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Living in Revolutionary Time: Coming to Terms with the Violence of Latin America’s Long Cold War / Greg GrandinPart One: The First Cold War1. Terror in the Russian and Mexican Revolutions / Friedrich Katz; 2. Mueras y matanza: Spectacles of Terror and Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexico / Jocelyn Olcott; 3. On the Road to “El Porvenir”: Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in El Salvador and Nicaragua / Jeffrey L. Gould; 4. Ránquil: Violence and Peasant Politics on Chile’s Southern Frontier / Thomas Miller KlubockPart Two: The Cuban Conjuncture5. The Trials: Violence and Justice in the Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution / Michelle Chase; 6. Beyond Paradox: Counterrevolution and the Origins of Political Culture in the Cuban Revolution, 1959–2007 / Lillian GuerraPart Three: The Weight of the Night7. The Furies of the Andes: Violence and Terror in the Chilean Revolution and Counterrevolution / Peter Winn; 8. A Headlong Rush into the Future: Violence and Revolution in a Guatemalan Indigenous Village / Carlota McAllister; 9. “People’s War,” “Dirty War”: Cold War Legacy and the End of History in Postwar Peru / Gerardo Rénique; 10. The Cold War That Didn’t End: Paramilitary Modernization and the Medellín Miracle / Forrest HyltonReflections11. You Say You Want a Counterrevolution: Well, You Know, We All Want to Change the World / Corey Robin; 12. Thoughts on Violence and Modernity in Latin America / Neil LarsenConclusionsLatin America’s Long Cold War: A Century of Revolutionary Process and U.S. Power / Gilbert M. Joseph; History as Containment: An Interview with Arno J. Mayer / Greg GrandinContributors; Index

Recenzii

“The abstract rejection of violence is one of the pillars of today’s hegemonic liberal ideology, and is paradoxically used to legitimize most brutal forms of actual violence. This is why this outstanding book not only offers an excellent study of the Latin American revolutionary process, but has universal relevance. Its precise analysis of the necessary role of emancipatory violence against the violence of the system itself brings a much-needed fresh air into the stale moralism of the liberal Left. A much-needed awakening from our humanitarian dogmatic dream!” Slavoj Žižek“Showcasing the work of a remarkable group of scholars, this collection provides a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin America’s twentieth century and a thought-provoking intervention into our understanding of the history and meaning of political violence.”—Laurent Dubois, author of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution

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"Showcasing the work of a remarkable group of scholars, this collection provides a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin America's twentieth century and a thought-provoking intervention into our understanding of the history and meaning of political violence."--Laurent Dubois, author of "Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution"

Descriere

Considers causes of violence in Latin America, how important ideology and social relations are as determinants of political violence and whether Cold War violence was unique