Poets and Prophets of the Resistance - Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador''s Civil War

Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salvador to the eve of civil war in 1980.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: Intellectuals of the Resistance


• Chapter One: Dreaming of Reform


• Chapter Two: University Apostles


• Chapter Three: Peasant Intellectuals in Chalatenango


• Chapter Four: La Masacuata's War


• Chapter Five: The Making of the Internal Enemy


• Chapter Six: Insurgent Intellectuals


• Chapter Seven: Crisis and Rural Insurgency


• Conclusion: From Resistance to War


• Acronyms


• Diagrams


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Joaquín M. Chávez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Summary

Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salvador to the eve of civil war in 1980.

Additional text

this book greatly enriches our understanding of the cultural roots of revolution in El Salvador and elsewhere in Latin America.

Product details

• Authors: Joaquin M. (Assistant Professor of History Chavez, Joaquín M Chávez, Joaquín M. Chávez
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.03.2017
• EAN: 9780199315512
• ISBN: 978-0-19-931551-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, El Salvador, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions