Nicaragua, the land of Sandino
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Nicaragua, the land of Sandino
(Westview profiles, . Nations of contemporary Latin America)
Westview Press, 1991
3rd ed., rev. and updated
- hard
- pbk.
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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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