Dictatorship in South America by Dávila, Jerry

Dictatorship in South America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405190558)

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Dictatorship in South America by Dávila, Jerry

Dictatorship in South America

$44.50
Dictatorship in South America by Dávila, Jerry

Dictatorship in South America

$44.50
Format: Paperback
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Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.
  • Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin America
  • Examines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military dictatorship
  • Draws on recent historiographical currents from Latin America to read these regimes as radically ideological and inherently unstable
  • Makes a close reading of the economic trajectory from dependency to development and democratization and neoliberal reform in language that is accessible to general readers
  • Offers a lively and readable narrative that brings popular perspectives to bear on national histories

Selected as a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE



Author: Jerry D疱ila
ISBN-10: 1405190558
ISBN-13: 9781405190558
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2013
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2013
By Jerry D疱ila
By Jerry D疱ila
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Jerry D疱ila is Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945 (2003) and Hotel Trico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950 - 1980 (2010), both of which have been translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil. D疱ila has taught in both the United States and Latin America, where he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the Pontif兤ia Universidade Catica in Rio de Janeiro and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of S縊 Paulo.

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