Armies without Nations
Subtitle: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: April 1, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780195161205
First sentence: To "conceive of violence" as a subject of historical inquiry may be only slightly less challenging today than it was in 1970 when Hofstadter synthesized the range of difficulties posed by the systematic study of a subject so ubiquitous and momentous, yet disparate in form, origin, and effect.