Author: Manuel BonillaPublisher:
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Languages : es
Pages : 16
Book Description
Mensaje dirigido al Congreso Nacional
Author: Manuel BonillaMensaje dirigido al congreso nacional por el señor Presidente constitucional de la república General don Manuel Bonilla
Author: Mensaje dirigido al Congreso Nacional por el senor Presidente constitucional de la Republica. - Tegucigalpa, Tipogr. Nacional 1907-Enero de 1907. 1908. 1911
Author: Manuel BonillaArmies Without Nations
Author: Robert H. HoldenPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0195310209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Public violence, a persistent feature of Latin American life since the collapse of Iberian rule in the 1820s, has been especially prominent in Central America. Robert H. Holden shows how public violence shaped the states that have governed Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Linking public violence and patrimonial political cultures, he shows how the early states improvised their authority by bargaining with armed bands or montoneras. Improvisation continued into the twentieth century as the bands were gradually superseded by semi-autonomous national armies, and as new agents of public violence emerged in the form of armed insurgencies and death squads. World War II, Holden argues, set into motion the globalization of public violence. Its most dramatic manifestation in Central America was the surge in U.S. military and police collaboration with the governments of the region, beginning with the Lend-Lease program of the 1940s and continuing through the Cold War. Although the scope of public violence had already been established by the people of the Central American countries, globalization intensified the violence and inhibited attempts to shrink its scope. Drawing on archival research in all five countries as well as in the United States, Holden elaborates the connections among the national, regional, and international dimensions of public violence. Armies Without Nations crosses the borders of Central American, Latin American, and North American history, providing a model for the study of global history and politics. Armies without Nations was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2005.
A Guide to the Official Publications of the Other American Republics ...
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: Bulletin
Author: Pan American UnionBulletin of the Pan American Union
Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
A Camera in the Garden of Eden
Author: Kevin ColemanPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477308563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of bananas, the most widely consumed fresh fruit in North America. So great was the company’s power that it challenged the sovereignty of the Latin American and Caribbean countries in which it operated, giving rise to the notion of company-dominated “banana republics.” In A Camera in the Garden of Eden, Kevin Coleman argues that the “banana republic” was an imperial constellation of images and practices that was checked and contested by ordinary Central Americans. Drawing on a trove of images from four enormous visual archives and a wealth of internal company memos, literary works, immigration records, and declassified US government telegrams, Coleman explores how banana plantation workers, women, and peasants used photography to forge new ways of being while also visually asserting their rights as citizens. He tells a dramatic story of the founding of the Honduran town of El Progreso, where the United Fruit Company had one of its main divisional offices, the rise of the company now known as Chiquita, and a sixty-nine day strike in which banana workers declared their independence from neocolonial domination. In telling this story, Coleman develops a new set of conceptual tools and methods for using images to open up fresh understandings of the past, offering a model that is applicable far beyond this pathfinding study.
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