The Carrera Revolt and 'Hybrid Warfare' in Nineteenth-Century Central America

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-86382-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 107 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 1607 g

This book provides a novel analysis of the military campaign of Rafael Carrera during the popular insurrection of 1837-1840 in Guatemala. Over the course of three years Carrera, a semi-literate farmer, and his army of peasants established Conservative control over Guatemala and accelerated the disintegration of the Central American Federation. Although Carrera’s rise has been analyzed from a political and socio-economic perspective, the present work shows that Carrera’s vertiginous success is the product of a peculiar and misunderstood approach to warfare that combines guerrilla recruiting practices and rural insurgency logistics with conventional combat tactics and operations. Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo argues that Carrera’s hybrid warfare was made possible because of the conditions created by the militarization of Latin American society following the administrative reforms of the Bourbon monarchy in the late eighteenth century. The concept of hybrid warfare is offered as an alternative model to understand the success of other insurgencies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Visoni-Alonzo, Gilmar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Defining Guerrilla Warfare.- Background to the Uprising.- From Popular Insurrection to Full-Scale War.- Conclusion.- Cited Works.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo is Associate Professor at Queensborough Community College (City University of New York), USA. He is also the co-author of The Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe: A Revision.