Central America's forgotten history : revolution, violence, and the roots of migration / Aviva Chomsky.
"Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780807056486
- ISBN: 0807056480
- Physical Description: 294 pages : map ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-277) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Invisibility and forgetting -- Making the United States, making Central America : bananas, coffee, savages, and bandits -- The Cold War, ten years of spring, and the Cuban Revolution -- Guatemala : reform, revolution, and genocide -- Nicaragua : "Luchamos contra el yanqui, enemigo de la humanidad" -- El Salvador : si Nicaragua venció, ¡El Salvador vencerá! -- Honduras : staging ground for war and Reaganomics -- Central America solidarity in the United States -- Peace treaties and neoliberalism -- Migration -- Conclusion: Trump's border war. |
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