Warfare in Latin America
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Warfare in Latin America
（The international library of essays on military history）
Ashgate, c2007
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- v. 1
- v. 2
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Presents a collection of analytical materials regarding the history of war in Latin America. Covering pre-history to the 1990s, this book includes accounts from various regions and forms of warfare. It is of interest to experts on the continent and those who work on the military in other parts of the globe.
Table of Contents
- Volume I:
- Part I Pre-Conquest and Conquest: 'Flowery war' in Aztec history, Frederic Hicks
- Life and death in a Maya war zone, Charles Suhler and David A. Freidel
- Fierce and unnatural cruelty: Cortes and the conquest of Mexico, Inga Clendinnen
- Tactical factors in the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, Douglas A. Daniel
- Revising the conquest of Mexico: smallpox, sources, and populations, Francis J. Brooks.
- Part II Independence: Rebellions in late colonial Spanish America: a comparative perspective, Anthony McFarlane
- Spanish American independence: a structural analysis, George Reid Andrews
- The army of New Spain and the wars of independence, 1790-1821, Christon Irving Archer
- Loyalist overkill: the socioeconomic costs of 'repressing' the separatist insurrection in Cuba, 1868-78, Alfonso W. Quiroz
- Bolivar and the 'Caudillos', John Lynch
- Banditry and revolution in New Spain, Christon Irving Archer. PART III International Wars: One thing leads to another: recurrent militarized disputes in Latin America, 1816-1986, Paul R. Hensel
- The war of the Triple Alliance: three explanatory models, Diego Abente
- Following their children into battle: women at war in Paraguay, 1864-70, Barbara J. Ganson
- Consequences for Argentina of the war of Triple Alliance, 1865-70, Francis James McLynn
- The Paraguayan Rosetta Stone: new insights into the demographics of the Paraguayan War, 1864-70, Thomas L. Whigham and Barbara Potthast-Jutkeit
- Nitrates, Chilean entrepreneurs, and the origins of the war of the Pacific, Luis Ortega
- Hacia el Mar: Bolivia's quest for a Pacific port, Ronald Bruce Saint John
- Chile during the first months of the war of the Pacific, William F. Sater
- Salvador-Honduras War, 1969: the 'soccer war', Jay Mallin
- The Falklands War: lessons learned and mislearned, Norman Friedman.
- Volume II:
- Part IV Civil Wars: The social and ethnic significance of the war of the Cabanos, Manuel Correa de Andrade
- Of friends and foes: the caste war and ethnicity in Yucatan, Wolfgang Gabbert
- Politics, peasants, and people of color: the 1912 'race war' in Cuba reconsidered, Louis A. Perez Jr.
- Response to revolt: the counter guerrilla strategy of Porfirio Diaz, Paul J. Vanderwood
- Battleground women: soldaderas and female soldiers in the Mexican revolution, Andres Resendez Fuentes
- Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Latin America, 1960-80, Richard Weitz
- Terror and guerrilla warfare in Latin America, 1956-70, Timothy Wickham-Crowley
- Shining path and the 'decisive battle' in Lima's Barriadas: the case of Villa El Salvador, Jo-Marie Burt
- After the fall of Abimael Guzman: the limits of Sendero Luminoso, Carlos Ivan Degregori
- What kind of war for Colombia, Julia E. Sweig
- Grappling with Guatemala's horror, Piero Gleijeses
- Rebellion in Chiapas: rural reforms and popular struggle, Neil Harvey
- The battle for San Salvador, Julia Preston. PART V Strategies and Institutions: Conscription versus penal servitude: army reform's influence on the Brazilian state's management of social control, 1870-1930, Peter M. Beattie
- The Brazilian general staff and Brazil's military situation: 1900-45, Frank D. McCann
- The South American military and (re)democratization: professional thought and self-perception, Frederick M. Nunn
- Brazilian-Argentine relations in the 1980s: from wary rivalry to friendly competition, Wayne A. Selcher
- The significance of conventional deterrence in Latin America, Jaime Garcia Covarrubias
- Security challenges in Latin America, Rut Diamint
- The United States and Latin America: shaping an elusive future, Donald E. Schulz. Index.
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