Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Latin America

From the Wars of Independence to the Central American Civil Wars

Pedro Santoni

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9780313335945
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780313055003
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

The countries of Latin America have suffered through numerous foreign interventions and domestic wars in the nearly two centuries that have followed its independence. These conflicts have also given rise to mass mobilizations of middle-class professionals, women, peasants, urban workers, and Indians, who sought to carve out a more active public role in the new states that emerged from these struggles. In some cases, elites and their military allies violently repressed the newly emerging forces. Recent research has begun to place greater emphasis on the lives of common people and the interventions they had on the larger events of the day. Eight chapters written by different scholars show the the importance of the actions of civilians in wars in Latin America.

Chapters describing civilians' roles and lives through wars in Latin America are supplemented by recommended print and online resources for further study, a glossary defining important terms and concepts, and a timeline putting events into a chronological context.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Series Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Timeline
• 1. Two Centuries of War in Latin America: An Overview
• 2. Death, Destiny, and the Daily Chores: Everyday Life in Spanish America during the Wars of Independence, 1808–1826
• 3. The Civilian Experience in Mexico during the War with the United States, 1846–1848
• 4. Civilians and Civil War in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Mexico City and the War of the Reform, 1858–1861
• 5. The Brazilian Home Front during the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864–1870
• 6. Civilians and the War of the Pacific, 1879–1884
• 7. “¡No Vamos a la Revolución!” Civilians as Revolucionarios and Revolucionados in the 1910 Mexican Revolution
• 8. Reading Revolution from Below: Cuba 1933
• 9. Repression and Resistance, Hatred and Hope: Civilian Life during the Military Dictatorships in the Southern Cone, 1964–1990
• 10. And the Storm Raged On: The Daily Experience of Terror during the Central American Civil Wars, 1966–1996
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Editor and Contributors