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

TitleDaily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Latin America: From the Wars of Independence to the Central American Civil Wars
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsSantoni, Pedro
Number of Pages329
PublisherGreenwood Press
CityWestport, CT
Abstract

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.

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