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The protection racket state: elite politics, military extortion, and civil war in El Salvador
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Self-Defense, Class Oppression, and Extortion: Alternative Views of State Violence 2. Antecendents: the Matanza and the Establishment of Military Rule 3. The Failure of Institutional Military Rule 4. Experiments in State Terrorism: Repression and Polarization under Carlos Romero 5. The Reformist Coup and the First Revolutionary Governing Junta 6. Descent into Mass Murder 7. Breaking the Protection Racket: From War to Peace Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes References Index
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- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1997-01-01
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 05
- Pages
- 34-2982-34-2982
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- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
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- W2001947157
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