Salvador

Author : Joan Didion
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671668808
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salvador written by Joan Didion and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982, Didion traveled to El Salvador at the height of the ghastly civil war. From battlefields to body dumps, she trained a merciless eye not only on the terror but also on the depredations and evasions of our own country's foreign policy.

Author : Joan Didion
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307787362
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salvador written by Joan Didion and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion "brings the country to life" (The New York Times), delivering an anatomy of a particular brand of political terror—its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy. As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, Didion interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear." Here, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.

Author : Christopher M. White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313349290
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of El Salvador written by Christopher M. White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plagued by political instability, economic hardships, and massacres of innocent men, women, and children, El Salvador has fought for freedom throughout the centuries. No other reference source captures the suffering and adversities this ever-evolving country has faced. El Salvador's tumultuous history and recent past are clearly documented in this comprehensive volume, filling a void on high school and public library shelves. This work offers the most current coverage on this tiny Latin American nation's struggles, covering from the pre-Columbian era to economics and politics in the 21st Century. Complete with interviews and accounts from former rebels and guerillas and other victims of the country's struggle for freedom, this volume highlights a unique account of El Salvador's past-the viewpoints from the civilians who lived through it. Students will find The History of El Salvador to be an invaluable source for social studies, history, current events, and political science classes.

Author : Erik Ching
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469628678
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of Civil War in El Salvador written by Erik Ching and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Salvador's civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later. It saw extreme violence on both sides, including the terrorizing and targeting of civilians by death squads, recruitment of child soldiers, and the death and disappearance of more than 75,000 people. Examining El Salvador's vibrant life-story literature written in the aftermath of this terrible conflict--including memoirs and testimonials--Erik Ching seeks to understand how the war has come to be remembered and rebattled by Salvadorans and what that means for their society today. Ching identifies four memory communities that dominate national postwar views: civilian elites, military officers, guerrilla commanders, and working class and poor testimonialists. Pushing distinct and divergent stories, these groups are today engaged in what Ching terms a "narrative battle" for control over the memory of the war. Their ongoing publications in the marketplace of ideas tend to direct Salvadorans' attempts to negotiate the war's meaning and legacy, and Ching suggests that a more open, coordinated reconciliation process is needed in this postconflict society. In the meantime, El Salvador, fractured by conflicting interpretations of its national trauma, is hindered in dealing with the immediate problems posed by the nexus of neoliberalism, gang violence, and outmigration.

Author : Russell Crandall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107134595
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salvador Option written by Russell Crandall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a thorough and fair-minded interpretation of the role of the United States in El Salvador's civil war.

Author : Erik Ching
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268076995
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authoritarian El Salvador written by Erik Ching and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1931, El Salvador’s civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershed. Araujo had been the nation’s first democratically elected president, and although no one could have foreseen the result, the coup led to five decades of uninterrupted military rule, the longest run in modern Latin American history. Furthermore, six weeks after coming to power, the new military regime oversaw the crackdown on a peasant rebellion in western El Salvador that is one of the worst episodes of state-sponsored repression in modern Latin American history. Democracy would not return to El Salvador until the 1990s, and only then after a brutal twelve-year civil war. In Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940, Erik Ching seeks to explain the origins of the military regime that came to power in 1931. Based on his comprehensive survey of the extant documentary record in El Salvador’s national archive, Ching argues that El Salvador was typified by a longstanding tradition of authoritarianism dating back to the early- to mid-nineteenth century. The basic structures of that system were based on patron-client relationships that wove local, regional, and national political actors into complex webs of rival patronage networks. Decidedly nondemocratic in practice, the system nevertheless exhibited highly paradoxical traits: it remained steadfastly loyal to elections as the mechanism by which political aspirants acquired office, and it employed a political discourse laden with appeals to liberty and free suffrage. That blending of nondemocratic authoritarianism with populist reformism and rhetoric set the precedent for military rule for the next fifty years.

Author : Holly Ayala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964120358
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ABC El Salvador written by Holly Ayala and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Ingersoll Rose
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 9780813723754
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Hazards in El Salvador written by William Ingersoll Rose and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim McNeese
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438106912
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salvador Dali written by Tim McNeese and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life and works of the Spanish artist, Salvador Dali.

Author : Robert Armstrong
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896081376
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Salvador, the Face of Revolution written by Robert Armstrong and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the leading U.S. experts on Central America provide the definitive study of the history and reality of the situation in El Salvador through the early 1980s.