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Barcode30053003322198
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No972.8 CHOM
Title Central America's forgotten history : revolution, violence, and the roots of migration / Aviva Chomsky.
Author Chomsky, Aviva, 1957- author.
CollectionAdult 900-999
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003322198972.8 CHOM5/7/2021 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Chomsky, Aviva, 1957- author.
Title Statement Central America's forgotten history : revolution, violence, and the roots of migration / Aviva Chomsky.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]
Physical Description 294 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
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 vencio´, ¡El Salvador vencera´! -- Honduras : staging ground for war and Reaganomics -- Central America solidarity in the United States -- Peace treaties and neoliberalism -- Migration -- Conclusion: Trump's border war.
Summary, Etc. "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.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term United States Emigration and immigration.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term United States Relations Central America.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Central America Emigration and immigration.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Central America History.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Central America Politics and government.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Central America Relations United States.

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