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BL
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955059
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b709429
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| Main Entry
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Holden, Robert H.
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| Title & Author
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Armies without nations : : public violence and state formation in Central America, 1821-1960 /\ Robert H. Holden.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2004.
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1 online resource (x, 336 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0195161203
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: 0195185730
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: 0198036515
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: 1280532637
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: 1602569908
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: 661053263X
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: 9780195161205
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: 9780195185737
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: 9780198036517
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: 9781280532634
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: 9781602569904
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: 9786610532636
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Part 1 : 1821-1939. Historical dimensions of public violence in Latin America -- Binding hatreds : public violence, state, and nation in Central American history -- Guatemala : organizing for war -- El Salvador : a democracy of violence -- Honduras : caudillos in search of an army -- Nicaragua : a new army finds its caudillo -- Costa Rica : caudillos in search of a state -- Part 2 : 1940-1960. Transformations -- Defining collaboration : the United States and Central America -- Guatemala : "Showcase of Latin America" -- El Salvador : distrustful collaborator -- Honduras : remaking an "armed rabble" -- Nicaragua : "Ready to receive orders from Uncle Sam" -- Costa Rica : an army renamed -- Conclusions -- Statistical appendix -- Notes.
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| Abstract
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Public violence, scarcely analyzed and little understood, is the subject of this pathbreaking research into the histories of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Robert Holden shows how the national and international dimensions of public violence intersected there to produce "armies without nations.
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| Subject
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Political violence-- Central America-- History.
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State-sponsored terrorism-- Central America-- History.
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Political violence.
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Politics and government
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Violence in Society.
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State-sponsored terrorism.
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Central America, Politics and government.
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Central America.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.6/09728
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| LC Classification
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HN125.2.V5H65 2004eb
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