A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

Greg Grandin is Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City," a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and" The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation," also published by Duke University Press.Gilbert M. Joseph is the Farnam Professor of History and International Studies at Yale University. He is the author of "Revolution from Without: Yucatan, Mexico, and the United States, 1880-1924," and a co-editor of "In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War" and "The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics," all also published by Duke University Press.

Considers causes of violence in Latin America, asking in what ways political violence is related to modernity and to international and regional fields of power, how important ideology and social relations are as determinants of political violence, and whe

Living in Revolutionary Time: Coming to Terms with the Violence of Latin America's Long Cold War / Greg Grandin Part One: The First Cold War 1. Terror in the Russian and Mexican Revolutions / Friedrich Katz; 2. Mueras y matanza: Spectacles of Terror and Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexico / Jocelyn Olcott; 3. On the Road to "El Porvenir": Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in El Salvador and Nicaragua / Jeffrey L. Gould; 4. Ranquil: Violence and Peasant Politics on Chile's Southern Frontier / Thomas Miller Klubock Part Two: The Cuban Conjuncture 5. The Trials: Violence and Justice in the Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution / Michelle Chase; 6. Beyond Paradox: Counterrevolution and the Origins of Political Culture in the Cuban Revolution, 1959-2007 / Lillian Guerra Part Three: The Weight of the Night 7. The Furies of the Andes: Violence and Terror in the Chilean Revolution and Counterrevolution / Peter Winn; 8. A Headlong Rush into the Future: Violence and Revolution in a Guatemalan Indigenous Village / Carlota McAllister; 9. "People's War," "Dirty War": Cold War Legacy and the End of History in Postwar Peru / Gerardo Renique; 10. The Cold War That Didn't End: Paramilitary Modernization and the Medellin Miracle / Forrest Hylton Reflections 11. You Say You Want a Counterrevolution: Well, You Know, We All Want to Change the World / Corey Robin; 12. Thoughts on Violence and Modernity in Latin America / Neil Larsen Conclusions Latin America's Long Cold War: A Century of Revolutionary Process and U.S. Power / Gilbert M. Joseph; History as Containment: An Interview with Arno J. Mayer / Greg Grandin Contributors; Index