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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465086803321

Autore

Dávila Jerry <1970->

Titolo

Dictatorship in South America [[electronic resource] /] / Jerry Dávila

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

ISBN

1-118-29079-8

1-299-31389-2

1-118-29081-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Viewpoints/puntos de vista : themes and interpretations in Latin American history

Disciplina

980.03/3

Soggetti

Dictatorship - South America

Dictatorship - Brazil - History - 20th century

Dictatorship - Argentina - History - 20th century

Dictatorship - Chile - History - 20th century

Cold War

Electronic books.

South America Politics and government 20th century

Brazil Politics and government 20th century

Argentina Politics and government 20th century

Chile Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., publication."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Latin America in the Cold War : Dependency, Development and Liberation -- Brazil : What Road to Development? -- Argentina : Between Peronism and Military Rule -- Chile : From Pluralistic Socialism to Authoritarian Free Market -- Argentina : The Terrorist State -- Brazil : The Long Road Back -- Chile : A Protected Democracy?.

Sommario/riassunto

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

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778441803321

Autore

Dain Bruce R. <1967->

Titolo

A hideous monster of the mind [[electronic resource] ] : American race theory in the early republic / / Bruce Dain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-674-03014-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/009

Soggetti

Race - History

Race - Philosophy

Racism - United States - History

Racism in anthropology - United States - History

Race discrimination - United States - History

Eugenics - United States - History

African Americans - Public opinion

Public opinion - United States

United States Race relations

United States Moral conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 The Face of Nature -- 2 Culture and the Persistence of Race -- 3 The Horrors of St. Domingue -- 4 The Mutability of Human Affairs -- 5 Conceiving Universal Equality -- 6 Black Immediatism -- 7 The New Ethnology -- 8 Effacing the Individual -- Notes -- Index