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Shades of Peace and Democracy: Social Discontent and Reconciliation in Central America

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TERROR IN THE COUNTRYSIDE: CAMPESINO RESPONSES TO POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN GUATEMALA, 1954–1985. By RachelMay. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001. Pp. 234. $26.00 paper.)

SANDINISTA: CARLOS FONSECA AND THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION. By ZimmermannMatilde. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. 288. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.)

THE REAL CONTRA WAR: HIGHLANDER PEASANT RESISTANCE IN NICARAGUA. By BrownTimothy C. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Pp. 321. $29.95 cloth.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

David Carey Jr.*
Affiliation:
University of Southern Maine
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Abstract

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Copyright © 2005 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

This essay has benefited from the insights and critiques of Allen Wells, Judith Maxwell, Aldo Lauria-Santiago, and Kirsten Johnson.

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