ISBN:
0816649316
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0816649324
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9780816649327
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9780816649310
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 298 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Social movements, protest, and contention v. 29
Parallel Title:
Print version Waves of Protest : Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005
DDC:
303.6097284/0904
Keywords:
Protest movements History
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El Salvador ; Social conditions
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Protest movements ; El Salvador ; History
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Electronic books
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El Salvador Social conditions
Abstract:
One of the first longitudinal studies of collective resistance in the developing world, Waves of Protest examines large-scale contentious action in El Salvador during critical eras in the countryÕs history. Providing a compelling analysis of the massive waves of protests from the early twentieth century to the present in El Salvador, Paul D. Almeida fully chronicles one of the largest and most successful campaigns against globalization and privatization in the Americas. Drawing on original protest data from newspapers and other archival sources, Almeida makes an impassioned argument that regim
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; Introduction: El Salvador and Popular Mobilization in the Global South; 1. Liberalization, Intimidation, and Globalization; 2. Regime Openings and Violent Closings, 1925-62; 3. Renewed Liberalization and Mass Mobilization, 1962-72; 4. The State Giveth and the State Taketh Away (Again), 1972-81; 5. Mobilization by Globalization: El Salvador under Neoliberalism; 6. The Sequencing of Third World Struggle; Appendix: Data and Methods; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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