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Landscapes Of Struggle

Politics Society And Community In El Salvador

Aldo A Lauria-Santiago author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press

Published:9th May '04

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During the 1980s, El Salvador's violent civil war captured the world's attention. In the years since, the country has undergone dramatic changes. Landscapes of Struggle offers a broad, interdisciplinary assessment of El Salvador from the late nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the ways local politics have shaped the development of the nation.

Proceeding chronologically, these essays-by historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists-explore the political, social, and cultural dynamics governing the Salvadoran experience, including the crucial roles of land, the military, and ethnicity; the effects of the civil war; and recent transformations, such as the growth of a large Salvadoran diaspora in the United States. Taken together, they provide a fully realized portrait of El Salvador's troublesome past, transformative present, and uncertain future.

An excellent example of a new generation of scholarship on El Salvador. It represents a concerted effort to apply the insights of subaltern studies, gender studies, historical anthropology, and cultural studies to the understanding of the country's past. - Hector Lindo-Fuentes, Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute, Fordham University; ""Rarely has history met contemporary cultural and political analysis of Latin America on such fertile terrain.... A fresh, critical, interdisciplinary lens."" - Charles R. Hale, University of Texas

ISBN: 9780822958383

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336 pages