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Author Knudson, Jerry W.

Title Roots of revolution : the press and social change in Latin America / Jerry W. Knudson
Published Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 138 p., [10] p. of plates )
Contents The Mexican Revolution of 1910 -- Bolivia, revolution in the clouds -- Origins of the Cuban Revolution -- Argentina, terror in the global village -- Chile, the nation that surrvived -- The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua and the Chamorro Family -- The Peruvian Press Law of 1974, a glimpse of the future?
Summary Rebels of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. --Inscription dated April 11, 1919, one day after the assassination of Emiliano Zapata, carved on a post at the Borda Garden in Cuernavaca, seen by Frank Tannenbaum in1923. Peace by Revolution, An Interpretation of Mexico (New York, 1933), page179. Do not wear a shirt of eleven yards, for he who wants to be a Redeemer will be crucified. Guadalajara proverb, quoted in John Reed, Insurgent Mexico. 1914, page 78. Roots of Revolution focuses on the longstanding social and economic ills that caused society to disin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Knudson, Jerry W.
SUBJECT Knudson, Jerry W. fast
Lateinamerika gnd
Subject Revolutions -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
Press and politics -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
Social change -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Politics and government
Press and politics
Revolutions
Social change
Sozialer Wandel
Pressefreiheit
SUBJECT Latin America -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004559
Subject Latin America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021675294
ISBN 9780761848240
076184824X