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Defending la patria , or homeland, is the historical mission claimed by Latin American armed forces. For La Patria is a comprehensive narrative history of the military’s political role in…
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Brian Loveman
The preeminent book on Chilean history, covering the colonial period through the present. The book has a thematic organizational style, which emphasizes continuities in such areas as urbanization, modernization, the…
No Higher Law: American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere since 1776
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Explores why the United States pursues failed policies in Latin America. Reviewing official policy and its defenders and critics alike, this book focuses on the reasons for the failure of…
Examining the origins of antipolitics, this work traces its nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, and focuses on the years from 1965 to 1995 to emphasize the somewhat illusory transitions to democracy…
Vicente Perez Rosales
Part social and cultural history and part commentary, this edition is Edited with an Introduction and chronology of Rosales’ life by Brian Loveman and Translated by John H. R. Polt.
Ernesto Che Guevara
This indispensable book includes three of Che Guevara’s most influential essays describing his tactical philosophy of fighting a guerrilla war in Latin America. 5 illustrations.
This book identifies the criteria for successful constitutions in both theory and practice using the research and methodology of Vincent Ostrom.
The United States has carved the world into five pieces, maintaining troops and military leadership in each.