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Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Latin America: From the Wars of Independence to the Central American Civil Wars

Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Latin America: From the Wars of Independence to the Central American Civil Wars

Hardcover

Series: Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Daily Liv

General Latin American HistoryGeneral Military HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 031333594X
ISBN13: 9780313335945
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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 interventions they had on the larger events of the day. Eight chapters written by different scholars show the the importance of the actions of civilians in wars in Latin America.

Chapters describing civilians' roles and lives through wars in Latin America are supplemented by recommended print and online resources for further study, a glossary defining important terms and concepts, and a timeline putting events into a chronological context.

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General Latin American History