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Dictatorship in South America
Contributor(s): Dávila, Jerry (Author)
ISBN: 1405190566     ISBN-13: 9781405190565
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $94.76  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America - South America
Dewey: 980.033
LCCN: 2013000743
Series: Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.84 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
 
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Publisher Description:
Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.
  • Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin America
  • Examines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military dictatorship
  • Draws on recent historiographical currents from Latin America to read these regimes as radically ideological and inherently unstable
  • Makes a close reading of the economic trajectory from dependency to development and democratization and neoliberal reform in language that is accessible to general readers
  • Offers a lively and readable narrative that brings popular perspectives to bear on national histories

Selected as a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE