{"product_id":"a-century-of-revolution-9780822347378","title":"A Century of Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection exploring the ideological hardening and accelerated polarization that marked twentieth-century Latin America and its epochal cycles of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Showcasing the work of a remarkable group of scholars, this collection provides a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin America’s twentieth century and a thought-provoking intervention into our understanding of the history and meaning of political violence.”—\u003cb\u003eLaurent Dubois\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAvengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The abstract rejection of violence is one of the pillars of today’s hegemonic liberal ideology, and is paradoxically used to legitimize the most brutal forms of actual violence. This is why this outstanding book not only offers an excellent study of the Latin American revolutionary process, but has universal relevance. Its precise analysis of the necessary role of emancipatory violence against the violence of the system itself brings a breath of fresh air into the stale moralism of the liberal Left. A much-needed awakening from our humanitarian dogmatic dream!”—\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“. . . [E]xcellent case studies based on careful archival work that broaden our understanding of Latin America’s experience of the Cold War in the twentieth century.” -- Paulo Drinot * Cold War History *\u003cbr\u003e“The combined expertise of Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph makes \u003ci\u003eA Century of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e analytically rich, especially in describing of the growing agency of mass organizations. . . . \u003ci\u003eA Century of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e offers a nuanced theoretical framework, which can help historians interested in new models of analysis to explain the dynamics of late-twentieth-century Latin America.” -- Alejandro Quintana * History: Reviews of New Books *\u003cbr\u003e“Yet few works provide a perspective as wide-ranging as \u003ci\u003eA Century of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e. This important collection — with its careful attention to causes, processes, and outcomes — goes a long way toward debunking the widespread view that political violence is ‘natural’ to Latin America.” -- Michael Gobat * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“A Century of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e has much of value to offer. . . . The ten essays by Latin Americanists in A Century of Revolution bear out the considerable historiographical value of the reinterpretive efforts in which Grandin and Joseph have been engaged for over a decade.“ -- Arthur Schmidt * A Contracorriente *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Century of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e offers the field a new way to periodize and organize instances of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary violence. . . . [It] provides a powerful corrective, illuminating how world-historical events like the overthrow of Salvador Allende or the bola of the Mexican Revolution were anything but predetermined, reconstructing the cycles of escalation and radicalization that produced them, and chronicling the unstable chemical reactions sparked as the twin Furies of rebellion and reaction met.\" -- Kristen Weld * Latin American Research Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiving in Revolutionary Time: Coming to Terms with the Violence of Latin America's Long Cold War \/ Greg Grandin 1\u003cbr\u003e Part One: The First Cold War \u003cbr\u003e violence and Terror in the Russian and Mexican Revolutions \/ Friedrich Katz 45\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eMueras y matanza\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e: Spectacles of Terror and Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexico \/ Jocelyn Olcott 62\u003cbr\u003e On the Road to \"El Porvenir\": A Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in El Salvador and Nicaragua \/ Jeffrey R. Gould 88\u003cbr\u003e Ránquil: Violence and Peasant Politics on Chile's Southern Frontier \/ Thomas Miller Klubock 121\u003cbr\u003e Part Two: The Cuban Conjuncture \u003cbr\u003e The Trials: Violence and Justice in the Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution \/ Michelle Chase 163\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Paradox: Counterrevolution and the Origins of Political Culture in the Cuban Revolution, 1959-2009 \/ Lillian Guerra 199\u003cbr\u003e Part Three: The Weight of the Night \u003cbr\u003e The Furies of the Andes: Violence and Terror in the Chilean Revolution and Counterrevolution \/ Peter Winn 239\u003cbr\u003e A Headlong Rush into the Future: Violence and Revolution in a Guatemalan Indigenous Village \/ Carlota McAllister 276\u003cbr\u003e \"People's War,\" \"Dirty War\": Cold War Legacy and the End of History in Postwar Peru \/ Gerardo Rénique 309\u003cbr\u003e The Cold War That Didn't End: Paramilitary Modernization in Medellín Miracle, Colombia \/ Forrest Hylton 338\u003cbr\u003e Reflections \u003cbr\u003e You Say You Want a Counterrevolution: Well, You Know, We All Want to Change the World \/ Corey Robin 371\u003cbr\u003e Thoughts on Violence and Modernity in Latin America \/ Neil Larsen 381\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions \u003cbr\u003e Latin America's Long Cold War: A Century of Revolutionary Process and U.S. Power \/ Gilbert M. Joseph 397\u003cbr\u003e History as Containment: An Interview with Arno J. Mayer \/ Greg Grandin 415\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 423\u003cbr\u003e Index 427","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406060495191,"sku":"9780822347378","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-century-of-revolution-9780822347378","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}