DICTATORSHIP IN SOUTH AMERICA by Jerry Davila ( 9781405190558 )

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Title:

DICTATORSHIP IN SOUTH AMERICA

By:

Jerry Davila

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Paperback

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1405190558

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9781405190558

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Publisher:

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

15 March, 2013

Series:

Viewpoints/Puntos de Vista

Pages:

224

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Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazil, Argentina, and Chile with brutal military dictatorships in the Cold War period. Based on the strong and recent currents of historiography emerging from these countries, it offers a compelling narrative that brings popular perspectives to bear on national histories.

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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

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Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

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