Dictatorship in South America

Dávila, Jerry

Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista

1. Auflage März 2013
224 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-9055-8

John Wiley & Sons

Kurzbeschreibung

Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazil, Argentina, and Chile with brutal military dictatorships in the Cold War period. Based on the strong and recent currents of historiography emerging from these countries, it offers a compelling narrative that brings popular perspectives to bear on national histories. Latin America's economic crises, free market reforms, development strategies, and their social and historical contexts are discussed in a way that is accessible to general readers in this single-volume thematic study.

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Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.
* Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin America
* Examines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military dictatorship
* Draws on recent historiographical currents from Latin America to read these regimes as radically ideological and inherently unstable
* Makes a close reading of the economic trajectory from dependency to development and democratization and neoliberal reform in language that is accessible to general readers
* Offers a lively and readable narrative that brings popular perspectives to bear on national histories

List of Illustrations viii

Series Editor's Preface xi

Preface and Acknowledgements xiii

Introduction 1

1 Dependency, Development, and Liberation: Latin America in the Cold War 9

2 Brazil: What Road to Development? 20

3 Argentina: Between Peronism and Military Rule 55

4 Chile: From Pluralistic Socialism to Authoritarian Free Market 82

5 Argentina: The Terrorist State 112

6 Brazil: The Long Road Back 137

7 Chile: A "Protected Democracy"? 156

Conclusion 179

Sources 185

Index 201

"This concise history of Brazil, Argentina, and Chile from the mid-20th century until its end is excellent... Invaluable for undergraduate collections. Summing up: Essential. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1 October 2013)

Jerry Dávila is Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945 (2003) and Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950 - 1980 (2010), both of which have been translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil. Dávila has taught in both the United States and Latin America, where he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of São Paulo.

J. Dávila, University of Illinois, USA