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Murder and Violence in Modern Latin America de EA Johnson

Murder and Violence in Modern Latin America: Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series

Autor EA Johnson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 dec 2013
Written by leading scholars from the Americas and Europe, this is a thorough assessment of state-supported murder and violence in Latin America. * Examines the trajectory of murder and violence in the region over the past two centuries and elucidates theories and trends regarding violence since the end of colonial rule * Covers topics such as "the disappeared," the rise of drug cartels and narco-violence, physical violence against wives, the judging and sentencing of violent crimes, genocide, and state terrorism * Explains and applies macro-level theories regarding the rise of civilization, state building, and violence to contemporary Latin America * Demonstrates the complexity of an issue at the forefront of life and politics in the region today
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ISBN-13: 9781118657355
ISBN-10: 1118657357
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Wiley
Seria Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series

Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Academics, researchers and scholars studying violence, culture, and politics in contemporary Latin America in departments of history, politics, anthropology, and Latin American studies

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Notă biografică

Eric A. Johnson is Professor of Modern History at Central Michigan University and has previously held professorships at the University of Cologne and the University of Strathclyde. His research concentrates on violence in modern history, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt Foundations, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. He is the author of Urbanization and Crime (1995), the co-author of What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany (2005) and author of Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans (2000). Ricardo D. Salvatore is Professor of Modern History at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His most recent books are Subalternos, Derechos y Justicia Penal: Ensayos de historia social y cultural argentina 1829-1940 (2010) and Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era (2003). He is co-editor of Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times (2001). Pieter Spierenburg is Professor of Historical Criminology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His research focuses on crime, law, and violence in early modern history, and he has published, among other books, A History of Murder: Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present (Polity, 2008), Written in Blood: Fatal Attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam (2004) and, most recently, Violence and Punishment: Civilizing the Body through Time (Polity, 2013).

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This is a thorough assessment of the gripping yet gruesome topic of Latin American violence. Written by leading scholars from the Americas and Europe, this is the most comprehensive study of the subject to date and it focuses specifically on state-supported murder and violence.