Understanding Central America
Third Edition
Westview Press Inc
3rd Edition
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-8133-3069-3 (ISBN)
Description
Since the 1960s, political violence and war in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala have taken 300,000 lives, displaced millions, and reversed decades of economic gains. Progress towards peace has been made since 1989 as the years of war have changed the politics of conflict in the region and in Washington. This third edition explores the origins and development of Central America's political conflicts and efforts to resolve them. It includes an analysis of the 1992 Salvadoran peace accord, the 1996 Nicaraguan national election and prospects for consolidation of democracy in Nicaragua, and Guatemala's troubled transition toward greater democracy, as well as a new chapter that examines how US foreign policy during the 1970s and 1980s was shaped by the Cold War. The authors trace the roots of under-development and crisis in the region by examining the shared and individual histories of the individual nations.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-3069-3 (9780813330693)
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05/1999
3rd Edition
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Content
The Central American crisis; the crisis of poverty and its causes; the common history; individual histories of Central American nations; rebellions, democratization and the international context; Nicaragua; El Salvador; Guatemala; Costa Rica and Honduras; prospects for democratic consolidation and US foreign policy.