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Blood and Debt
What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. Challenging the dominance of this model, Blood and Debt looks at Latin America's much different experience as more relevant to politics today in regions as varied as the Balkans and sub-Saharan Africa. The book's illuminating review of the relatively peaceful history of Latin America from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries reveals the lack of two critical prerequisites needed for war: a political and military culture oriented toward international violence, and the state institutional capacity to carry it out. Using innovative new data such as tax receipts, naming of streets and public monuments, and conscription records, the author carefully examines how war affected the fiscal development of the state, the creation of national identity, and claims to citizenship. Rather than building nation-states and fostering democratic citizenship, he shows, war in Latin America destroyed institutions, confirmed internal divisions, and killed many without purpose or glory.
The Rarified Air of the Modern
This book examines technology, modern identity, and history-making in Peru through the country's relationship with aviation.
Counting the Dead
At a time when a global consensus on human rights standards seems to be emerging, this rich study steps back to explore how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Winifred Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, finds that radically different ideas about human rights have shaped three groups of human rights professionals working there--nongovernmental activists, state representatives, and military officers. Drawing from the life stories of high-profile activists, pioneering interviews with military officials, and research at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Counting the Dead underscores the importance of analyzing and understanding human rights discourses, methodologies, and institutions within the context of broader cultural and political debates.
Latin America's Wars Volume II: The Age of the Professional Soldier, 1900-2001
The second volume in Robert Scheina's definitive study of Latin American military history draws upon years of extensive research and teaching in the field. Although wags in the United States have quipped that if Latin America's military forces were not constantly seeking political power they would have nothing to do, Scheina describes how these men have not only bravely defended their own homelands from foreign enemies but have also gone abroad to fight in both world wars and in the Korean War. This groundbreaking volume also examines the numerous U.S. interventions in Latin America during the twentieth century and the various motivations for them, ranging from the petty interests of influen...
Conflicto amazónico 1932-1934
Han sido pocas las oportunidades en que los colombianos nos hemos unido para alcanzar un objetivo común. Tan escasas, que casi se podrían contar en los dedos de la mano. Y una de ellas, tal vez la más significativa en lo que va del presente siglo, tuvo lugar hace sesenta años. En 1932, peruanos con el aval de su gobierno ingresaron a nuestro territorio por la frontera de Leticia. La soberanía nacional se vio amenazada y, por primera vez desde la lucha contra España en el siglo pasado, la nación como tal se unió frente a la agresión. Las hostilidades se prolongaron oficialmente hasta 1934, cuando se acordó su fin. Como es obvio, las Fuerzas Armadas fueron protagonistas de ese episod...
Conflicto amazónico
La Fuerza Militar Colombiana : El Ejército / Luis E. Mendoza Londoño / - La Marina de guerra / Carlos E. Ospina Cubillos / - La aviación militar / Oscar Forero Racines / - Los servicios / José Jaime Rodríguez / - Movilización nacional / Juan Salcedo Lora / - El frente de guerra / Alfonso Mejía Valenzuela / - Desarrollo de las operaciones / Alvaro Valencia Tovar / - Operaciones aéreas / José Manuel Villalobos / - El frente diplomático / Gustavo Rosales Ariza / - Siluetas humanas / Gabriel Puyana García.
