Revolution In El Salvador: From Civil Strife To Civil Peace, Second Edition

by Tommie Sue Montgomery

Overview

Since the first edition of this book appeared in 1982, El Salvador has experienced the most radical social change in its history. Ten years of civil war, in which a tenacious and creative revolutionary movement battled a larger, better-equipped, U.S.-supported army to a standstill, have ended with twenty months of negotiations and a peace accord th

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367317744
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/2019
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	363
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tommie Sue Montgomery has taught at Dickinson College, Agnes Scott College, and Emory University. She is currently a senior research associate with the North-South Center at the University of Miami.

Table of Contents

Introduction—Fifteen Years Later: Peace at Last, Prologue: Recollections and Reflections - Fifteen Years in El Salvador, 1 The Roots of Revolution, 1524-1960, 2 Challenges to Power, 1960-1980, 3 The Church, 4 The Revolutionaries, 5 Descent into Anarchy; 1980-1982, 6 High-Intensity Politics and Low-lntensity Conflict, 1982-1984, 7 Electoral Authoritarianism and the Revolutionary Challenge, 1984-1989, 8 The Road to Peace, 1989-1994, Epilogue: The Electronic Tamale