Dictatorship in South America
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Dictatorship in South America

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eBook - PDF

Dictatorship in South America

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Series Editor’s Preface
  7. Preface and Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1: Dependency, Development, and Liberation: Latin America in the Cold War
  10. 2: Brazil: What Road to Development?
  11. 3: Argentina: Between Peronism and Military Rule
  12. 4: Chile: From Pluralistic Socialism to Authoritarian Free Market
  13. 5: Argentina: The Terrorist State
  14. 6: Brazil: The Long Road Back
  15. 7: Chile: A “Protected Democracy”?
  16. Conclusion
  17. Sources
  18. Index