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Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Latin America From the Wars of Independence to the Central American Civil Wars
Pedro Santoni
ISBN: 0-313-33594-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33594-5
360 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/2008
List Price: $65.00 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • "The ten essays in this volume designed for students at the high school and college levels offer an overview and explore the impact of specific wars on civilian populations..."
    —MultiCultural Review     3/1/2009
Description: 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 violently repressed the newly emerging forces. Recent research has begun to place greater emphasis on the lives of common people and the interventions they had on the larger events of the day. Eight chapters written by different scholars show the the importance of the actions of civilians in wars in Latin America.

Chapters describing civilians' roles and lives through wars in Latin America are supplemented by recommended print and online resources for further study, a glossary defining important terms and concepts, and a timeline putting events into a chronological context.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter One. Two Centuries of War in Latin America: An Overview
    Pedro Santoni
    Chapter Two. Death, Destiny, and the Daily Chores: Everyday Spanish America during the Wars of Independence (1806-1826)
    Karen Racine
    Chapter 3. The Civilian Experience in Mexico during the War with the United States (1846-1848)
    Pedro Santoni
    Chapter 4. Civilians and Civil War in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Mexico City and the War of the Reform (1858-1861)
    Daniel S. Haworth
    Chapter 5. The Brazilian Home Front during the War the Triple Alliance (1864-1870)
    Vitor Izecksohn and Peter M. Beattie
    Chapter 6. Civilians and the War of the Pacific (1879-1884)
    Bruce W. Farcau
    Chapter 7. No vamos a la Revolucin! Civilians as Revolucionarios and Revolucionados in the 1910 Mexican Revolution
    John Lear
    Chapter 8. Reading Revolution from Below: Cuba (1933 and 1959)
    Gillian McGillivray
    Chapter 9. Repression and Resistance, Hatred and Hope: Military Dictatorships and Civilian Life in South America (1964-1990)
    Margaret Power
    Chapter 10. And the Storm Raged On: The Daily Experience of Terror during the Central American Civil Wars (1966-1990)
    Arturo Arias
    Glossary
    Bibliography
    About the Editor and Contributors
About the Author: Pedro Santoni is Professor of History and Department Chair at California State University, San Bernardino. His research interests lie in the political, military, and cultural history of nineteenth-century Mexico, and his publications include Mexican at Arms: Puro Federalists and the Politics of War, 1845-1848, and Where Did the Other Heroes Go? Exalting the Polko National Guard Battalions in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. He has also served as president of the Southwestern Historical Association, and as a consultant for historical research projects sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
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