Jerry Dávila

eBook, ePUB

Dictatorship in South America (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

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

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Autor

Jerry Dávila 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 Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950 - 1980 (2010), both of which have been translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil. Dávila has taught in both the United States and Latin America, where he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of São Paulo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118290798
• Artikelnr.: 37647260

Rezensionen

"This concise history of Brazil, Argentina, and Chile fromthe mid-20th century until its end is excellent... Invaluable forundergraduate collections. Summing up: Essential. Alllevels/libraries." (Choice, 1 October 2013)

"This ambitious book will change how we understanddictatorships and redemocratization. Dávila brings tolight generally ignored aspects of life under military rule andargues forcefully that dictatorship is not a 'natural' aspect ofLatin American society." - Jeffrey Lesser, EmoryUniversity

"A thoughtful, deeply informed introduction to one of thedarkest chapters of Latin American history. Highly recommended bothfor the breadth of its analysis and for its admirable concision." -George Reid Andrews, University of Pittsburgh

"Dávila's brisk and provocative survey of SouthAmerican military dictatorships bristles with insights and strikesan elegant balance between synthetic analysis and attention tonational specificity. Dávila's engaging chapters, richin illuminating detail, situate these dictatorships historicallyand reveal key continuities in each country." -Thomas D. Rogers, Emory University