Nicaragua, the land of Sandino

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Nicaragua, the land of Sandino

Thomas W. Walker

(Westview profiles, . Nations of contemporary Latin America)

Westview Press, 1991

3rd ed., rev. and updated

  • hard
  • pbk.

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-184) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This third edition on the history, politics and culture of Nicaragua has been updated to analyze the nature and impact of the US-orchestrated Contra war, and related programmes of economic and social destabilization in the late 1980s; the evolution and development of governmental institutions and policies; the 1990 election and the victory by the UNO; and the nature of the government of Violeta de Chamorro in the year following the Sandinistas' defeat.

Table of Contents

  • Early history - the pre-Columbian period to the mid-1930s
  • recent history - the Somoza era, the Sandinist revolution and the conservative restoration
  • the economic dimension
  • culture and society
  • government and politics
  • the international dimension.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA17299752
  • ISBN
    • 081331089X
  • LCCN
    91017668
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Boulder
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 202 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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