Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary
upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the
Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in
Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s
and 1980s. In his introduction to "A Century of Revolution," Greg
Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror
in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of
domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion,
and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have
tended to take them for granted, leaving unexamined important
questions regarding their form and meaning. The essays in this
groundbreaking collection take up these questions, providing a
sociologically and historically nuanced view of the ideological
hardening and accelerated polarization that marked Latin America's
twentieth century. Attentive to the interplay among overlapping
local, regional, national, and international fields of power, the
contributors focus on the dialectical relations between
revolutionary and counterrevolutionary processes and their
unfolding in the context of U.S. hemispheric and global hegemony.
Through their fine-grained analyses of events in Chile, Colombia,
Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru, they
suggest a framework for interpreting the experiential nature of
political violence while also analyzing its historical causes and
consequences. In so doing, they set a new agenda for the study of
revolutionary change and political violence in twentieth-century
Latin America.
Contributors
Michelle Chase
Jeffrey L. Gould
Greg Grandin
Lillian Guerra
Forrest Hylton
Gilbert M. Joseph
Friedrich Katz
Thomas Miller Klubock
Neil Larsen
Arno J. Mayer
Carlota McAllister
Jocelyn Olcott
Gerardo Renique
Corey Robin
Peter Winn
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