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Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

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Wood's book is an excellent weaving togther of the of strands of the land question in Usulutan department. The use of before-the-revolution-and-after "agrarian reform" maps constructed by former rebel participants and supporters is particularly ingenious.

She does a great job of even-handedly assessing a still contentious issue in the historiography of U.S. foreign policy.

She treated her interview subjects with great care and fairness, and tried to get at the roots of what made the Salvadoran conflict a civil war.

A criticism is that she appears to accept to eagerly reports of rebel arms transfers along the Usulutan coastline. Hundreds of millions the GOES received from the U.S. made those canoes full of rifles for the FMLN from Nicaragua pale in comparison.