Rank and Privilege (eBook, PDF)

The Military and Society in Latin America
Redaktion: Rodriguez, Linda A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Dr. Linda A. Rodr_guez has assembled a new collection of essays that finally provides the historical context necessary to understand the Latin American military. The articles included here examine a variety of time periods and nations, from the counterinsurgency army of New Spain, to the nineteenth-century War of the Pacific, to the modern relationship between the military and development. The contributors look at the ways in which Latin America's armed forces have changed over time, and how external threats as well as internal rivalries have shaped the military. Together, these essays trace the roots of the military's power and the growth of its political influence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216287780
• Artikelnr.: 75136744

Autorenporträt

Linda Alexander Rodr'guez is assistant director of the Latin American Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 International War and Government Modernization: The Military-A
Case Study
Chapter 2 "La Causa Buena": The Counterinsurgency Army of New Spain and the
Ten Years' War
Chapter 3 Authoritarianism and Militarism in Ecuador
Chapter 4 The War of the Pacific
Chapter 5 The South American Military Tradition: Preprofessional Armies in
Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Brazil
Chapter 6 The Armed Forces and Industrialists in Modern Brazil: The Drive
for Military Autonomy, 1889-1945
Chapter 7 Caudillismo and Institutional Change: Manuel Odrìa and the
Peruvian Armed Forces, 1948-1956
Chapter 8 The Military and Development
Chapter 9 The Latin American Military, Low-Intensity Conflict, and
Democracy
Chapter 10 Military Professionalism and Nonintervention in Mexico