Fear at the Edge

Bys: Juan E. Corradi, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Manuel Antonio Garretón

Book Overview

Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This provocative volume chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. The contributors, primarily Latin American scholars, examine the deep sense of insecurity and the complex social psychology of people who live in authoritarian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520077059
• ISBN13: 9780520077058
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"