How difficult it is to be God Shining Path's politics of war in Peru, 1980-1999

"The revolutionary war launched by Shining Path, a Maoist insurgency, was the most violent upheaval in modern Peru's history, claiming some 70,000 lives in the 1980s-1990s and drawing widespread international attention. Yet for many observers, Shining Path's initial successes were a m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Degregori, Carlos Iván (-)
Otros Autores: Stern, Steve J., 1951-, Appelbaum, Nancy P.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press 2012.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Critical human rights.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37985607*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beyond orientalism in twentieth-century Peru : Carlos Iván Degregori and the Shining Path war
  • The years we lived in danger : the armed conflict, 1980-1999
  • How social sciences failed? On the trail of Shining Path, an elusive object of study
  • The maturation of a cosmocrat and the construction of a community of discourse
  • Revolution by handbook : the expansion of Marxism-Leninism in the social sciences and the origins of Shining Path
  • Youth, peasants, and political violence : Ayacucho, 1980-1983
  • Harvesting storms : peasant rondas and the defeat of Shining Path in Ayacucho
  • How difficult it is to be God : ideology and political violence in Shining Path
  • Open wounds and elusive rights : reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.