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Informationen zum Autor Greg Grandin is Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation, also published by Duke University Press.Gilbert M. Joseph is the Farnam Professor of History and International Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Revolution from Without: Yucatan, Mexico, and the United States, 1880–1924, and a co-editor of In from the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War and The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics, all also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Considers causes of violence in Latin America, asking in what ways political violence is related to modernity and to international and regional fields of power, how important ideology and social relations are as determinants of political violence, and whe Zusammenfassung A collection exploring the ideological hardening and accelerated polarization that marked twentieth-century Latin America and its epochal cycles of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary violence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Living in Revolutionary Time: Coming to Terms with the Violence of Latin America's Long Cold War / Greg Grandin 1 Part One: The First Cold War violence and Terror in the Russian and Mexican Revolutions / Friedrich Katz 45 Mueras y matanza: Spectacles of Terror and Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexico / Jocelyn Olcott 62 On the Road to "El Porvenir": A Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in El Salvador and Nicaragua / Jeffrey R. Gould 88 Ránquil: Violence and Peasant Politics on Chile's Southern Frontier / Thomas Miller Klubock 121 Part Two: The Cuban Conjuncture The Trials: Violence and Justice in the Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution / Michelle Chase 163 Beyond Paradox: Counterrevolution and the Origins of Political Culture in the Cuban Revolution, 1959-2009 / Lillian Guerra 199 Part Three: The Weight of the Night The Furies of the Andes: Violence and Terror in the Chilean Revolution and Counterrevolution / Peter Winn 239 A Headlong Rush into the Future: Violence and Revolution in a Guatemalan Indigenous Village / Carlota McAllister 276 "People's War," "Dirty War": Cold War Legacy and the End of History in Postwar Peru / Gerardo Rénique 309 The Cold War That Didn't End: Paramilitary Modernization in Medellín Miracle, Colombia / Forrest Hylton 338 Reflections You Say You Want a Counterrevolution: Well, You Know, We All Want to Change the World / Corey Robin 371 Thoughts on Violence and Modernity in Latin America / Neil Larsen 381 Conclusions Latin America's Long Cold War: A Century of Revolutionary Process and U.S. Power / Gilbert M. Joseph 397 History as Containment: An Interview with Arno J. Mayer / Greg Grandin 415 Contributors 423 Index 427...
