Guerrillas and Generals The Dirty War in Argentina

Name: Guerrillas and Generals The Dirty War in Argentina
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ISBN: 9780275973605

ISBN-10: 0275973603

ISBN-13: 9780275973605

Edition: 2001

Authors: Paul H. Lewis

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Lewis provides a comprehensive, impartial examination of Argentina's "Dirty War." He analyzes the causes, describes the ideologies that motivated both sides, and explores the consequences of all-or-nothing politics. He begins by tracing the Dirty War's origins back to military interventions in the 1930s and 1940s, and the rise of General Juan Peron's populist regime, which resulted in the polarization of Argentine society. Peron's overthrow by the military in 1955 only heightened social conflict by producing a resistance movement out of which several guerrilla organizations would soon emerge. The ideologies, terrorist tactics, and internal dynamics of those underground groups are examined…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Paul H. Lewis is professor of political science at Tulane University. His previous books include The Crisis of Argentine Capitalism and Paraguay under Stroessner.



Abbreviations



The "Oligarchy" and the "People"



The Seedbed of Terrorism



The Guerrilla Emerges



The Guerrillas' World



The Military Surrenders



The Peronist Restoration



Toward the "Dirty War"



The Coup



The Ideology of Repression



The Inferno



Power Struggles



The Regime Crumbles



Retribution



The Endless Denouement



Residues of the "Dirty War"


Selected Bibliography


Index