Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987

by Charles Hale

Book Overview

A mere eighteen months after the Sandinistas came to power in Nicaragua in 1979, Miskitu Indians engaged in a widespread and militant anti-government mobilization. In late 1984, after more than three years of intense conflict, a negotiated transition to peace and autonomy began. This study analyzes these contrasting moments in Nicaraguan ethnic politics, drawing on four years of field research in a remote Miskitu community and in the central town...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804722552
• ISBN13: 9780804722551
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"