Describes the day-to-day experiences of civilians living in Latin America over the periods of turmoil during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and focuses on the challenges and sacrifices that men, women, and children made in those times of war.
Content Note
Two centuries of war in Latin America : an overview / Pedro Santoni -- Death, destiny, and the daily chores : everyday Spanish America during the Wars of Independence, 1806-1826 / Karen Racine -- The civilian experience in Mexico during the war with the United States, 1846-1848 / Pedro Santoni -- Civilians and Civil War in nineteenth-century Mexico : Mexico City and the War of the Reform, 1858-1861 / Daniel S. Haworth -- The Brazilian home front during the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 / Vitor Izecksohn and Peter M. Beattie -- Civilians and the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 / Bruce W. Farcau -- No vamos a la Revolución! : civilians as revolucionarios and revolucionados in the 1910 Mexican Revolution / John Lear -- Reading revolution from below : Cuba 1933 / Gillian McGillivray -- Repression and resistance, hatred and hope : military dictatorships in the southern cone, 1964-1990 / Margaret Power -- And the storm raged on : the daily experience of terror during the Central American Civil Wars, 1966-1996 / Arturo Arias.