Violence in Latin American History – serie
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19 produkter
While the City Sleeps
A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón
Av Lila Caimari
Inbunden, 2016
1190 kr
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While the City Sleeps is an extraordinary work of scholarship from one of Argentina's leading historians of modern Buenos Aires society and culture. In the late nineteenth century, the city saw a massive population boom and large-scale urban development. With these changes came rampant crime, a …
While the City Sleeps
A History of Pistoleros, Policemen, and the Crime Beat in Buenos Aires before Perón
Av Lila Caimari
Häftad, 2016
382 kr
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While the City Sleeps is an extraordinary work of scholarship from one of Argentina's leading historians of modern Buenos Aires society and culture. In the late nineteenth century, the city saw a massive population boom and large-scale urban development. With these changes came rampant crime, a …
Uruguay, 1968
Student Activism from Global Counterculture to Molotov Cocktails
Häftad, 2016
271 kr
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The tumultuous 1960s saw a generation of Latin American youth enter into political life in unprecedented numbers. Though some have argued that these young-radical movements were inspired by the culture and politics of social movements burgeoning in Europe and the United States, youth activism …
Death in the City
Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico
Inbunden, 2017
1190 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, many observers considered suicide to be a worldwide social problem that had reached epidemic proportions. In Mexico City, violent deaths in public spaces were commonplace in a city undergoing rapid modernization. Crime rates mounted, corpses piled up in the …
Death in the City
Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico
Häftad, 2017
382 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, many observers considered suicide to be a worldwide social problem that had reached epidemic proportions. In Mexico City, violent deaths in public spaces were commonplace in a city undergoing rapid modernization. Crime rates mounted, corpses piled up in the …
History of Infamy
Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico
Inbunden, 2017
1190 kr
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A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions. …
History of Infamy
Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico
Häftad, 2017
456 kr
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A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions. …
Forgotten Peace
Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia
Inbunden, 2017
844 kr
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Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, …
Forgotten Peace
Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia
Häftad, 2017
315 kr
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Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, …
Argentina's Missing Bones
Revisiting the History of the Dirty War
Inbunden, 2018
844 kr
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Argentina’s Missing Bones is the first comprehensive English-language work of historical scholarship on the 1976–83 military dictatorship and Argentina’s notorious experience with state terrorism during the so-called dirty war. It examines this history in a single but crucial place: Córdoba, …
Argentina's Missing Bones
Revisiting the History of the Dirty War
Häftad, 2018
315 kr
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Argentina’s Missing Bones is the first comprehensive English-language work of historical scholarship on the 1976–83 military dictatorship and Argentina’s notorious experience with state terrorism during the so-called dirty war. It examines this history in a single but crucial place: Córdoba, …
In the Vortex of Violence
Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Inbunden, 2020
1190 kr
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In the Vortex of Violence examines the uncharted history of lynching in post-revolutionary Mexico. Based on a collection of previously untapped sources, the book examines why lynching became a persistent practice during a period otherwise characterized by political stability and decreasing levels …
In the Vortex of Violence
Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Häftad, 2020
315 kr
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In the Vortex of Violence examines the uncharted history of lynching in post-revolutionary Mexico. Based on a collection of previously untapped sources, the book examines why lynching became a persistent practice during a period otherwise characterized by political stability and decreasing levels …
Nicaragua Must Survive
Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War
Inbunden, 2023
756 kr
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Nicaragua Must Survive tells the story of the Sandinistas' innovative diplomatic campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe and transformed Nicaraguan history at the tail end of the Cold War. The Sandinistas' diplomacy went far beyond elite politics, as thousands of …
Nicaragua Must Survive
Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War
Häftad, 2023
271 kr
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Nicaragua Must Survive tells the story of the Sandinistas' innovative diplomatic campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe and transformed Nicaraguan history at the tail end of the Cold War. The Sandinistas' diplomacy went far beyond elite politics, as thousands of …
Last Door
A History of Torture in Mexico's War against Subversives
Inbunden, 2025
844 kr
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As guerrilla groups sprouted up across Mexico in the early 1970s, the military and police routinely resorted to extreme acts of violence, including the systematic use of torture. In The Last Door, Gladys McCormick provides the most thorough account of how torture became a crucial and routine …
Last Door
A History of Torture in Mexico's War against Subversives
Häftad, 2025
271 kr
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As guerrilla groups sprouted up across Mexico in the early 1970s, the military and police routinely resorted to extreme acts of violence, including the systematic use of torture. In The Last Door, Gladys McCormick provides the most thorough account of how torture became a crucial and routine …
Crossroads of Violence
Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs in Northwestern Mexico
Inbunden, 2026
844 kr
Kommande
Crossroads of Violence is a history of the intertwined development of the drug trade and socialist guerrilla movements in northwestern Mexico during the 1960s and 70s. The Golden Quadrilateral, an area encompassing the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Durango, never fully reaped the …
Crossroads of Violence
Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs in Northwestern Mexico
Häftad, 2026
271 kr
Kommande
Crossroads of Violence is a history of the intertwined development of the drug trade and socialist guerrilla movements in northwestern Mexico during the 1960s and 70s. The Golden Quadrilateral, an area encompassing the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Durango, never fully reaped the …
