Joseph / Grandin / Rosenberg A Century of Revolution

Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9285-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

A collection exploring the ideological hardening and accelerated polarization that marked twentieth-century Latin America and its epochal cycles of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Grandin, Greg

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Katz, Friedrich

Olcott, Jocelyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Living in Revolutionary Time: Coming to Terms with the Violence of Latin America's Long Cold War / Greg Grandin 1

Part One: The First Cold War

violence and Terror in the Russian and Mexican Revolutions / Friedrich Katz 45

Mueras y matanza: Spectacles of Terror and Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexico / Jocelyn Olcott 62

On the Road to "El Porvenir": A Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in El Salvador and Nicaragua / Jeffrey R. Gould 88

Ránquil: Violence and Peasant Politics on Chile's Southern Frontier / Thomas Miller Klubock 121

Part Two: The Cuban Conjuncture

The Trials: Violence and Justice in the Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution / Michelle Chase 163

Beyond Paradox: Counterrevolution and the Origins of Political Culture in the Cuban Revolution, 1959-2009 / Lillian Guerra 199

Part Three: The Weight of the Night

The Furies of the Andes: Violence and Terror in the Chilean Revolution and Counterrevolution / Peter Winn 239

A Headlong Rush into the Future: Violence and Revolution in a Guatemalan Indigenous Village / Carlota McAllister 276

"People's War," "Dirty War": Cold War Legacy and the End of History in Postwar Peru / Gerardo Rénique 309

The Cold War That Didn't End: Paramilitary Modernization in Medellín Miracle, Colombia / Forrest Hylton 338

Reflections

You Say You Want a Counterrevolution: Well, You Know, We All Want to Change the World / Corey Robin 371

Thoughts on Violence and Modernity in Latin America / Neil Larsen 381

Conclusions

Latin America's Long Cold War: A Century of Revolutionary Process and U.S. Power / Gilbert M. Joseph 397

History as Containment: An Interview with Arno J. Mayer / Greg Grandin 415

Contributors 423

Index 427

Über Autor(innen)

Greg Grandin is Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation, also published by Duke University Press.Gilbert M. Joseph is the Farnam Professor of History and International Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Revolution from Without: Yucatan, Mexico, and the United States, 1880–1924, and a co-editor of In from the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War and The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics, all also published by Duke University Press.