Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Editorial Reviews
Review
'Elisabeth Jean Wood's Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador is a scholastic tour de force that can, on the one hand, be described as the latest addition to that canon of classic works seeking to explain peasant insurgency, while on the other as offering a radical and novel account of campesino motivations ... detailed and comprehensive ... novel and innovative ... Her conclusions open a new chapter in the study of peasant rebellion.' Latin American Review of Books
Book Description
Elisabeth Wood's account of insurgent collective action in El Salvador is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who supported the insurgency and those who did not, as well as on interviews with military commanders from both sides. She explains how widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action. Those who supplied tortillas, information, and other aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did not.
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics),Elisabeth Jean Wood,Peter Lange,Robert H. Bates,Ellen Comisso,Peter Hall,Joel Migdal,Helen Milner,Cambridge University Press,0521010500,1979-1992,20th century,El Salvador,General,History,Insurgency,Latin America - Central America,Moral and ethical aspects,Peasantry,Political Science,Political activity,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,War,American history: postwar, from c 1945 -,Civil war,Latin America,Political Science / General,Political activism,Political structure & processes
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