Military struggle and identity formation in Latin America
Subtitle: race, nation, and community during the liberal period
By: edited by Nicola Foote and René D. Harder Horst
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780813034874
Description: xiv, 350 p. : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Decentering war : military struggle, nationalism, and Black and indigenous populations in Latin America, 1850-1950 / Nicola Foote and René D. Harder Horst; title: pt. 1. Soldiering and citizenship; title: Subaltern strategies of citizenship and soldiering in Colombia's civil wars : Afro- and indigenous Colombians' experiences in the Cauca, 1851-1877 / James E. Sanders; title: Soldiers and statesmen : race, liberalism, and the paradoxes of Afro-Nicaraguan military service, 1844-1863 / Justin Wolfe; title: Afro-Cubans in Cuba's War for Independence, 1895-1898 / Aline Helg; title: Monteneros and macheteros : Afro-Ecuadorian and indigenous experiences of military struggle in liberal Ecuador, 1895-1930 / Nicola Foote; title: Race and ethnicity in the Guatemalan army, 1914 / Richard N. Adams; title: Mayan soldier-citizens : ethnic pride in the Guatemalan military, 1925-1945 / David Carey, Jr.; title: pt. 2. War and the racing of national boundaries and imaginaries; title: Indigenous peoples of Brazil and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 / Maria de Fatima Costa; title: Illustrating race and nation in the Paraguayan War era : exploring the decline of the Tupi Guarani warrior as the embodiment of Brazil / Peter M. Beattie; title: The conquest of the desert and the free indigenous communities of the Argentine plains / Carlos Martinez Sarasola; title: "The slayer of Victorio Bears his honors quietly" : Tarahumaras and the Apache wars in nineteenth-century Mexico / Julia O'Hara; title: Embattled identities in postcolonial Chile : race, region, and nation during the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 / Joanna Crow; title: Racial conflict and identity crisis in wartime Peru : revisiting the Cañete Massacre of 1881 / Vincent C. Peloso; title: Crossfire, cactus, and racial constructions : the Chaco War and indigenous people in Paraguay / René D. Harder Horst.