Latin America in the Cold War : Dependency, Development and Liberation -- Brazil : What Road to Development? -- Argentina : Between Peronism and Military Rule -- Chile : From Pluralistic Socialism to Authoritarian Free Market -- Argentina : The Terrorist State -- Brazil : The Long Road Back -- Chile : A Protected Democracy?
Summary
Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule. Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin AmericaExamines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military dictatorshipDraws on recent historiographical currents from Latin America to read these regimes as radically ideological and inherently unstableMakes a close reading