The United States and Latin American State Terrorism. A Review of (eds.) C. Menjívar and N. Rodríguez's <em>When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror</em> (Austin: U of Texas P, 2005)

Autores/as

  • Thomas Wright University of Nevada—Las Vegas

Palabras clave:

Imperialism, terrorism, Colonialism

Resumen

This edited volume brings the perspectives of sociology, political science, history, anthropology, law, and journalism to bear on the rise of state-sponsored repression and terror that characterized Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s and has continued in some areas to the present.

Biografía del autor/a

Thomas Wright, University of Nevada—Las Vegas

Thomas Wright recibió su doctorado en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, y es profesor de historia en la Universidad de Nevada, Las Vegas. Sus investigaciones abarcan temas políticos desde 1900. Sus libros incluyen State Terrorism in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and International Human Rights (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007); Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution, 2da edición (Praeger, 2001); Flight from Chile: Voices of Exile, con Rody Oñate (New Mexico, 1998); Food, Politics, and Society in Latin America, co-editado con John C. Super (Nebraska, 1985); y Landowners and Reform in Chile: The Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura, 1919-1940 (Illinois, 1982).

Publicado

2007-08-01

Cómo citar

Wright, T. (2007). The United States and Latin American State Terrorism. A Review of (eds.) C. Menjívar and N. Rodríguez’s <em>When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror</em> (Austin: U of Texas P, 2005). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 5(1), 315–326. Recuperado a partir de https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/393

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Sección

Reseñas: Los EE.UU. y Latino América