Warfare in Latin America - Volumes I and II

Contents: Volume I: Part I Pre-Conquest and Conquest: 'flowery war' in Aztec history, Frederic Hicks; Life and death in a Maya war zone, Charles Suhler and David A. Freidel; Fierce and unnatural cruelty: Cort and the conquest of Mexico, Inga Clendinnen; Tactical factors in the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, Douglas A. Daniel; Revising the conquest of Mexico: smallpox, sources, and populations, Francis J. Brooks. Part II Independence: Rebellions in late colonial Spanish America: a comparative perspective, Anthony McFarlane; Spanish American independence: a structural analysis, George Reid Andrews; The army of New Spain and the wars of independence, 1790-1821, Christon I. Archer; Loyalist overkill: the socio-economic costs of 'repressing' the separatist insurrection in Cuba, 1868-78, Alfonso W. Quiroz; Bolivar and the 'Caudillos', John Lynch; Banditry and revolution in New Spain, 1790-1821, Christon I. Archer. PART III International Wars: One thing leads to another: recurrent militarized disputes in Latin America, 1816-1986, Paul R. Hensel; The war of the Triple Alliance: three explanatory models, Diego Abente; Following their children into battle: women at war in Paraguay, 1864-70, Barbara J. Ganson; Consequences for Argentina of the war of Triple Alliance, 1865-70, F.J. McLynn; The Paraguayan Rosetta Stone: new insights into the demographics of the Paraguayan War, 1864-70, Thomas L. Whigham and Barbara Potthast; Nitrates, Chilean entrepreneurs, and the origins of the War of the Pacific, Luis Ortega; Hacia el Mar: Bolivia's quest for a Pacific port, Ronald Bruce St John; Chile during the first months of the War of the Pacific, William F. Sater; Salvador-Honduras War, 1969: the 'soccer war', Jay Mallin; The Falklands War: lessons learned and mislearned, Norman Friedman; Name index.

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• Guerra e operações de defesa
• História Militar