Sign-In
Cart
Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940
Paperback
Series: Kellogg Institute Democracy and Development
Central American HistoryGeneral World HistoryUnited States Politics
ISBN13: 9780268023751
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Jan 15 2014
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In December 1931, El Salvador's civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershed. Araujo had been the nation's first democratically elected president, and although no one could have foreseen the result, the coup led to five decades of uninterrupted military rule, the longest run in modern Latin American history. Furthermore, six weeks after coming to power, the new military regime oversaw the crackdown on a peasant rebellion in western El Salvador that is one of the worst episodes of state-sponsored repression in modern Latin American history. Democracy would not return to El Salvador until the 1990s, and only then after a brutal twelve-year civil war.
In Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940, Erik Ching seeks to explain the origins of the military regime that came to power in 1931. Based on his comprehensive survey of the extant documentary record in El Salvador's national archive, Ching argues that El Salvador was typified by a longstanding tradition of authoritarianism dating back to the early- to mid-nineteenth century. The basic structures of that system were based on patron-client relationships that wove local, regional, and national political actors into complex webs of rival patronage networks. Decidedly nondemocratic in practice, the system nevertheless exhibited highly paradoxical traits: it remained steadfastly loyal to elections as the mechanism by which political aspirants acquired office, and it employed a political discourse laden with appeals to liberty and free suffrage. That blending of nondemocratic authoritarianism with populist reformism and rhetoric set the precedent for military rule for the next fifty years.
1 different editions
Also available
Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940
Ching, Erik
Hardcover
Also in
Central American History
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Blitzer, Jonathan
Paperback
The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
Cavanagh, John
Broad, Robin
Paperback
Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, a Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
Harmon, Mark
Carroll, Leon
Paperback
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Blitzer, Jonathan
Hardcover
Voodoo Dolls: Creating and Using Voodoo Dolls for Spells, Blessings, and Manifestations
Duvalier, Marie
Paperback
Todos Los Que Se Han Ido Están Aquí / Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Blitzer, Jonathan
Paperback
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
Chomsky, Aviva
Paperback
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded
Kinzer, Stephen
Schlesinger, Stephen
Paperback
Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, a Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
Carroll, Leon
Harmon, Mark
Hardcover
Los Cuatro Cielos: Una Nueva Historia de Los Mayas / The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya
Stuart, David
Paperback
Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya Volume 29
Morley, Sylvanus G.
Goetz, Delia
Paperback
Aztec and Maya: An Illustrated History: The Definitive Chronicle of the Ancient Peoples of Central America and Mexico - Including the Aztec, Maya, Olm
Phillips, Charles
Jones, David M.
Hardcover
Echoes of the Taíno: The Spirit of Puerto Rico's First People (History Of Puerto Rico)
Alicea, Alex
Paperback
The Puerto Rican Myth: Pedro Albizu Campos: An evidence-based study of the man and his movement in the 1930s (Large Print Edition)
Torres Ramirez, Jose
Hardcover
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
Wilkinson, Daniel
Paperback
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making
Crawford, Sharika D.
Paperback
The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
History, Captivating
Hardcover
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Or, a Faithful Narrative of the Horrid and Unexampled Massacres Committed by the Popish Spanish Pa
de Las Casas, Bartolome
Hardcover
Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future: Forms of Knowledge in the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora
Barra Costa, Isis
Paperback
Spatial Theories for the Americas: Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism
Lara, Fernando Luiz
Hardcover
The Spanish Atlantic World, 1492-1825: From Kingdoms to Colonies to Independence
Andrien, Kenneth J.
Paperback
The Criminal Case of Juana Aguilar: Adjudicating Gender in Colonial Central America
Sellers-García, Sylvia
Paperback
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition
Scott, Peter Dale
Marshall, Jonathan
Paperback
The Time of Revolution is Now!: A Social History of Trans and Travesti Argentina
Butierrez, Marce Joan
Paperback
Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City and a True Story of Deadly Adventure
Stewart, Christopher S.
Paperback
Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value
Fischer, Edward F.
Paperback
Siete años con los indios miskitos y sumus de Honduras y Nicaragua (1915-1922)
Conzemius, Eduard
Paperback
Soldados, indios y franciscanos en la primera frontera continental del nuevo mundo (1529-1605)
Goicovich, Francis
Paperback
Blood in the Fields: Oscar Romero, Catholic Social Teaching, and Land Reform
Whelan, Matthew Philipp
Paperback
Banana Cowboys: The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism
Martin, James W.
Paperback
For Such a Time as This: Flavors and Recipes from My Honduras
Kohnle, Sarah
Baca, Heidy Lanza
Paperback
Happier Than a Billionaire: Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica, and Living the Zero Hour Work Week
Pisani, Nadine Hays
Paperback
The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup
Frank, Dana
Paperback
Exploraciones y aventuras en Honduras 1857: Un viaje a la "nueva California" (Tomo I)
Wells, William V.
Paperback
Arabia Preislámica: Un estudio crítico a través de la arqueología y las fuentes escritas desde la prehistoria hasta el año 570
Nieto Zahíno, Gabriel
Paperback
The Mosquito Confederation: A Borderlands History of Colonial Central America
Mendiola, Daniel
Paperback
Anuario Bibliográfico Hondureño (Revistas, libros y periódicos publicados de 1961-1967)
García, Miguel Ángel
Paperback
Reivindicación (Historia de la Guerra Legitimista de Honduras de 1903)
Somoza Vivas, Fernando
Paperback
Hoja de Ruta. Cultura y Civilizacion de Latinoamerica
Gac-Artigas, Priscilla
Gac-Artigas, Gustavo
Paperback
Primer manual de guerra del ejército de Honduras (Nociones de fortificación de campaña 1912)
Villacorta, Capitán Abel
Paperback
Secret History, Second Edition: The Cia's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954
Cullather, Nick
Paperback
The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala
Batz, Giovanni
Paperback
Financing Sovereignty: The Poyais Scandal in the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Clavel, Damian
Paperback
Dionisio de Herrera, el prócer olvidado
Valle, Rafael Heliodoro
Durón, Rómulo E.
Oquelí, Ramón
Paperback
How Wall Street Created a Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal
Espino, Ovidio Diaz
Paperback
Honduras y Nicaragua: Un conflicto territorial (1905): alegato ante el Rey de España
Gobierno de Honduras
Paperback
El Negocio Valentine: el ferrocarril nacional de Honduras y el muelle y faro de Puerto Cortés
Diario El Observador
Paperback
Despachos de Prensa 1890-1900 (lo que publicó la prensa sobre Honduras)
Azcona Bocock, José
Paperback
La fundación de San Pedro y Gracias a Dios (Y de las primeras villas y ciudades de Honduras)
Lunardi, Federico
Paperback
Modern Latin America: A Captivating Guide to Modern Latin American History
History, Captivating
Hardcover
Juan Ramón Molina: alma gemela de Rubén Darío
Pérez Cadalso, Eliseo
Valle, Rafael Heliodoro
Turcios, Froylán
Paperback
Biografía del General Francisco Morazán: Segundo premio república de El Salvador. Certamen Nacional de Cultura 1959
Dueñas, Ricardo
Paperback
La Guerra de Nicaragua (Relatos del filibustero que murió fusilado en Trujillo, Honduras)
Walker, William
Paperback