Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Latin America: From the Wars of Independence to the Central American Civil Wars (The Greenwood Press Daily Life ... Daily Lives of Civilians during Wartime)
By Pedro Santoni.
Description
The countries of Latin America have suffered through numerous foreign interventions and domestic wars in the nearly two centuries that have followed its independence. These conflicts have also given rise to mass mobilizations of middle-class professionals, women, peasants, urban workers, and Indians, who sought to carve out a more active public role in the new states that emerged from these struggles. In some cases, elites and their military allies violently repressed the newly emerging forces. Recent research has begun to place greater emphasis on the lives of common people and the interve...
ISBN(s)
031333594X, 9780313335945
