Lexicon of Terror : Argentina and the Legacies of Torture

• Autore: Feitlowitz Marguerite
• Pubblicazione: Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (720 p.)
• Disciplina: 982.06; 982.06/3
• Soggetto topico: Argentina -- Politics and government -- 1955-1983; Disappeared persons -- Argentina -- History; Political violence -- Argentina -- History; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Argentina -- History; Terrorism -- Argentina -- History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Gentlemen's Coup""; ""1 A Lexicon of Terror""; ""2 Night and Fog""; ""3 "Life Here Is Normal"""; ""4 The Land Mourneth""; ""5 The House of the Blind""; ""6 "The Scilingo Effect" The Past Is a Predator""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: ""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 of sadism, paranoia, and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine people, a nightmare that would claim over 30,000 c
• Titolo autorizzato: Lexicon of Terror
• ISBN: 0-19-984037-7; 0-19-976985-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813290603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II