In this comparative survey of guerrilla movements in Latin America, Timothy Wickham-Crowley explores the origins and outcomes of rural insurgencies in nearly a dozen cases since 1956. Focusing on the personal backgrounds of the guerrillas themselves and on national social conditions, the author explains why guerrillas emerged strongly in certain countries but not others. He considers, for example, under what circumstances guerrillas acquire military strength and why they do--or do not--secure substantial support from the peasantry in rural areas.
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[This book] represents the first real attempt to bring together Latin American case studies and sociological theories of revolution. It provides a useful framework for students seeking to compare the Latin American guerrilla experiences. Wickham-Crowley has produced a persuasive corrective to the views of those who have underestimated the importance of peasant support for guerrillas and overestimated the value of international support--either for the guerrillas or for their opponents. -- Richard Gillespie, The Times Higher Education Supplement
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This is the simply the best book on guerrilla movements.,
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This review is from: Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America (Paperback)
If you're interested in recent revolutions and revolutionary movements in Latin America (or elsewhere, for that matter), Wickham-Crowley's book can't be beat. It's a model of clear thinking and writing, and it's amazingly comprehensive in scope. The book condenses a phenomenal amount of research on a dozen major guerrilla movements in Latin American, and presents a compelling analysis as to why only the Cuban and Nicaraguan movements successfully seized power. (Hint: It helps when your enemy is a brutal dictator whom nearly everybody -- including middle- and even upper-class people -- despises.) This book is must reading for anyone interested in contemporary Latin America, guerrillas, or revolutions.
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Revolution is a hard topic to write about, at least in any sort of useful, scientific fashion. Problems start with defining revolution and thus deciding what events to include, but they certainly don't end there. Wickham-Crowley never shies away from making clear, well-deliniated definitions, even if it means including or excluding controversial events. This alone makes this book a useful addition to the literature of revolution.The author confines his study to revolution in Latin America, but this hardly confines him; Wickham-Crowley studies nearly a dozen revolutions, and could easily have included a dozen more. Indeed, despite, or perhaps because, this is a narrow, scientific study, Wickham-Crowley's observations on revolution can easily be applied to revolutions around the world and throughout history. Readers will be struck, for example, by the similarity of these revolutions to, say, the French Revolution or the Iranian. Be prepared for a dense read. This book is full of charts, graphs and statistics, and much of the book consists of a statistical analysis of such factors as the age of revolutionaries and revolutionary leaders, social class, and level of education. Although this is precisely what makes this difficult to read, however, it is also what gives the book so much validity and usefulness.
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Copiously comprehensive, lucid analysis,
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Wickham-Crowley's work examining revolutionary movements in Latin America is perhaps the finest text of its kind. Writing in clear yet copiously researched prose, Wickham-Crowley creates an interesting, useful paradigm for understanding insurgency in Latin America.I would recommend it to students of Latin American politics, revolutionary movements, and readers looking for a more systematic, rather than dogmatic, exploration of the topic.
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Guerrilla warfare is nothing new, and most certainly not a twentieth-century invention found first in the writings of Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, or Che Guevara. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
guerrilla por dentro, collective military rule, underlying peasant support, patrimonial praetorian regime, guerrilla departments, agrarian disruption, strong peasant support, guerrilla zones, guerrilla influence, widespread peasant support, luchas guerrilleras, strong guerrilla movements, les guérillas, las guerrillas, guerrilla leadership, praetorian regimes, other guerrilla movements, guerrilla period, censo agropecuario, rebellious cultures, rural guerrilla movements, guerrilla foco, rural presence, military solidarity, rural guerrillas Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Latin America, United States, Fidel Castro, Sendero Luminoso, Sierra Maestra, Theda Skocpol, Ché Guevara, Costa Rica, Las Villas, Santa Cruz, Central America, Christian Democrats, University of Huamanga, Alta Verapaz, Yon Sosa, Charles Tilly, Dominican Republic, Douglas Bravo, Hugo Blanco, National Front, Central University, Eddy Chibás, Eric Wolf, Somoza Debayle, Ayacucho Department New!
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Guerrilla warfare is nothing new, and most certainly not a twentieth-century invention found first in the writings of Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, or Che Guevara. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
guerrilla por dentro, collective military rule, underlying peasant support, patrimonial praetorian regime, guerrilla departments, agrarian disruption, strong peasant support, guerrilla zones, guerrilla influence, widespread peasant support, luchas guerrilleras, strong guerrilla movements, les guérillas, las guerrillas, guerrilla leadership, praetorian regimes, other guerrilla movements, guerrilla period, censo agropecuario, rebellious cultures, rural guerrilla movements, guerrilla foco, rural presence, military solidarity, rural guerrillas Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Latin America, United States, Fidel Castro, Sendero Luminoso, Sierra Maestra, Theda Skocpol, Ché Guevara, Costa Rica, Las Villas, Santa Cruz, Central America, Christian Democrats, University of Huamanga, Alta Verapaz, Yon Sosa, Charles Tilly, Dominican Republic, Douglas Bravo, Hugo Blanco, National Front, Central University, Eddy Chibás, Eric Wolf, Somoza Debayle, Ayacucho Department New!
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- Latin America: From Dependence to Revolution by James F. Petras on 12 pages
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- Theorizing Revolutions by John Foran on 7 pages
- Modern Latin American Revolutions: Second Edition by Eric Selbin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Social Revolutions in the Modern World (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) by Theda Skocpol in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Revolutions: A Worldwide Introduction to Political and Social Change (Studies in Comparative Social Science) by Stephen K. Sanderson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution by Matilde Zimmermann in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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