Dictatorship in South America

• Author(s): Jerry Dávila,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 224
• ISBN_10: 1118290798
  ISBN_13: 9781118290798
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Latin America / General , History / General ,

Description:... 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 of the economic trajectory from dependency to development and democratization and neoliberal reform in language that is accessible to general readers
• Offers a lively and readable narrative that brings popular perspectives to bear on national histories

Selected as a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE