Lexicon of Terror Argentina and the Legacies of Torture

Name: Lexicon of Terror Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
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ISBN: 9780195134162

ISBN-10: 0195134168

ISBN-13: 9780195134162

Edition: N/A

Authors: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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"We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens kidnapped and never seen again--such were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. Now, in A Lexicon of Terror, Marguerite Feitlowitz fully exposes the nightmare ofsadism, paranoia, and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine people, a nightmare that would claim over 30,000 civilians from 1976 to 1983 and whose leaders were recently issued warrants by a Spanish court for the…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/7/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.31" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction: The Gentlemen's Coup



A Lexicon of Terror



Night and Fog



"Life Here Is Normal"



The Land Mourneth



The House of the Blind



"The Scilingo Effect" The Past is a Predator


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index