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

by Pedro Santoni

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031333594X
• ISBN13: 9780313335945
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"