| Description |
294 pages : map ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
A crisis with deep roots. Invisibility and forgetting ; Making the United States, making Central America : bananas, coffee, savages, and bandits ; The Cold War, ten years of spring, and the Cuban Revolution -- Revolution in the 1970s and '80s. Guatemala : reform, revolution, and genocide ; Nicaragua : "Luchamos contra el yanqui, enemigo de la humanidad" ; El Salvador : si Nicaragua venció, ¡El Salvador vencerá! ; Honduras: staging ground for war and Reaganomics ; Central America solidarity in the United States -- Killing hope. Peace treaties and neoliberalism ; Migration -- Conclusion: Trump's border war. |
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Central America -- History.
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Central America -- Politics and government.
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Central America -- Emigration and immigration.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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Central America -- Relations -- United States.
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United States -- Relations -- Central America.
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HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
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International relations. (OCoLC)fst00977053
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Central America. (OCoLC)fst01244535
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Chomsky, Aviva, 1957- Central America's forgotten history Boston : Beacon Press, [2021] 9780807056547 (DLC) 2020032642 |
| ISBN |
9780807056486 (hardcover) |
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0807056480 (hardcover) |
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9780807056547 (ebook) |
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