Description

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

Selected as a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE