Armies without nations : public violence and state formation in Central America, 1821-1960
Public violence, scarcely analyzed and little understood, is the subject of this pathbreaking research into the histories of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Robert Holden shows how the national and international dimensions of public violence intersected there to produce "armies without nations
History
1 online resource (x, 336 pages) : illustrations
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Part 1 : 1821-1939. Historical dimensions of public violence in Latin America
Binding hatreds : public violence, state, and nation in Central American history
Guatemala : organizing for war
El Salvador : a democracy of violence
Honduras : caudillos in search of an army
Nicaragua : a new army finds its caudillo
Costa Rica : caudillos in search of a state
Part 2 : 1940-1960. Transformations
Defining collaboration : the United States and Central America
Guatemala : "Showcase of Latin America"
El Salvador : distrustful collaborator
Honduras : remaking an "armed rabble"
Nicaragua : "Ready to receive orders from Uncle Sam"
Costa Rica : an army renamed
Conclusions
Statistical appendix
Notes