Understanding Central America
Subtitle: global forces, rebellion, and change
By: John A. Booth, Christine J. Wade, Thomas W. Walker
Contributors: Wade, Christine J.; Walker, Thomas W., 1940-
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780813344218
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: Crisis and transformation; title: Global forces and system change in Central America. Poverty and its causes ; Regime change in Central America ; Discussion; title: The common history. Conquest to 1838 ; 1838 to the present; title: Costa Rica. Historical background ; Weathering global forces ; The economic development model transformed ; Changes in politics and parties ; Contemporary Costa Rican politics ; Conclusions; title: Nicaragua. Historical background ; Global forces and insurrection ; The revolution ; Replacing the revolution  ; Contemporary Nicaraguan politics ; Conclusions; title: El Salvador. Historical background ; Global forces and insurrection ; Government and politics since the peace accord ; Conclusions; title: Guatemala. Historical background ; Global forces and conflict ; The civilian transitional regime and the civil war ; The peace accords and contemporary Guatemalan politics ; Conclusions; title: Honduras. Historical background ; Weathering global forces ; Contemporary Honduran politics ; Conclusions; title: Political participation, political attitudes, and democracy. Citizen participation ; Citizen attitudes ; Factors shaping attitudes and participation ; Conclusions; title: Power, democracy, and US policy in Central America. The problem of power ; Democracy ; Mobilization ; The roots of US policy in Central America ; Communism in Central America ; Demobilization in Central America ; US policy in the post-Cold War period ; Conclusions; title: Reflections and projections. Reflections: repression, mobilization, and democratic transition ; Projections: prospects for democratic consolidation ; Conclusions.