Argentina's missing bones : revisiting the history of the Dirty War

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Argentina's missing bones : revisiting the history of the Dirty War

James P. Brennan ; photographs by Mercedes Ferreyra

(Violence in Latin American history / edited by Pablo Piccato, Federico Finchelstein, and Paul Gillingham, 6)

University of California Press, c2018

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-190) and index

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Argentina's Missing Bones is the first comprehensive English-language work of historical scholarship on the 1976-83 military dictatorship and Argentina's notorious experience with state terrorism during the so-called dirty war. It examines this history in a single but crucial place: Cordoba, Argentina's second largest city. A site of thunderous working-class and student protest prior to the dictatorship, it later became a place where state terrorism was particularly cruel. Considering the legacy of this violent period, James P. Brennan examines the role of the state in constructing a public memory of the violence and in holding those responsible accountable through the most extensive trials for crimes against humanity to take place anywhere in Latin America.

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Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Threats: Apostles of the New Order 8 2. Dictatorship: Terrorizing Cordoba 19 3. Death Camp: La Perla 36 4. Institutional Dynamics: The Third Army Corps 51 5. Transnational Dynamics: The Cold War and the War against Subversion 62 6. Five Trials: Public Reckonings of a Violent Past 77 7. Remembering: Memories of Violence and Terror 89 8. Assigning Blame: Who Was Responsible for the Dirty War? 105 Epilogue 116 Appendix 1 119 Appendix 2 123 Appendix 3 149 Notes 155 Selected Bibliography 181

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