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Armies without nations : public violence and state formation in Central America, 1821-1960 / Robert H. Holden

Holden, Robert H.,i1947- [Verfasser]

Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2004

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (x, 336 pages) : Illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-19-803651-7 ; 0-19-803651-5 ; 978-0-19-516120-5 ; 0-19-516120-3 ; 1-280-53263-7 ; 978-1-280-53263-4 ; 0-19-518573-0 ; 978-0-19-518573-7 ; 0-19-516120-3

Public violence, scarcely analyzed and little understood, is the subject of this pathbreaking research into the histories of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Robert Holden shows how the national and international dimensions of public violence intersected there to produce "armies without nations.