| Description |
1 online resource (x, 336 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1 : 1821-1939. Historical dimensions of public violence in Latin America -- Binding hatreds : public violence, state, and nation in Central American history -- Guatemala : organizing for war -- El Salvador : a democracy of violence -- Honduras : caudillos in search of an army -- Nicaragua : a new army finds its caudillo -- Costa Rica : caudillos in search of a state -- Part 2 : 1940-1960. Transformations -- Defining collaboration : the United States and Central America -- Guatemala : "Showcase of Latin America" -- El Salvador : distrustful collaborator -- Honduras : remaking an "armed rabble" -- Nicaragua : "Ready to receive orders from Uncle Sam" -- Costa Rica : an army renamed -- Conclusions -- Statistical appendix -- Notes. |
| Summary |
Public violence, scarcely analyzed and little understood, is the subject of this pathbreaking research into the histories of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Robert Holden shows how the national and international dimensions of public violence intersected there to produce "armies without nations. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Political violence -- Central America -- History.
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Political violence. |
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Central America. |
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History. |
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Central America -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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State-sponsored terrorism -- Central America -- History.
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State-sponsored terrorism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Holden, Robert H. Armies without nations. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 0195161203 (DLC) 2003053090 (OCoLC)52268923 |
| ISBN |
9780198036517 (electronic book) |
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0198036515 (electronic book) |
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9780195161205 (alkaline paper) |
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0195161203 (alkaline paper) |
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1280532637 |
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9781280532634 |
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0195185730 (electronic book) |
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9780195185737 (electronic book) |
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