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Author : Bruce Michael Bagley
Release : 1991-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Myths of Militarization by : Bruce Michael Bagley
Download or read book Myths of Militarization written by Bruce Michael Bagley. This book was released on 1991-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Rath
Release : 2013-04-22
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960 by : Thomas Rath
Download or read book Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960 written by Thomas Rath. This book was released on 2013-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico's large, rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian president and claimed to have depoliticized the army and achieved the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, historian Thomas Rath argues, Mexico's celebrated demilitarization was more protracted, conflict-ridden, and incomplete than most accounts assume. Civilian governments deployed troops as a police force, often aimed at political suppression, while officers meddled in provincial politics, engaged in corruption, and crafted official history, all against a backdrop of sustained popular protest and debate. Using newly available materials from military, intelligence, and diplomatic archives, Rath weaves together an analysis of national and regional politics, military education, conscription, veteran policy, and popular protest. In doing so, he challenges dominant interpretations of successful, top-down demilitarization and questions the image of the post-1940 PRI regime as strong, stable, and legitimate. Rath also shows how the army's suppression of students and guerrillas in the 1960s and 1970s and the more recent militarization of policing have long roots in Mexican history.
Author : Thomas G. Rath
Release : 2013
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960 by : Thomas G. Rath
Download or read book Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1960 written by Thomas G. Rath. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antulio Joseph Echevarria
Release : 2005
Genre : Insurgency
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Book Synopsis Fourth-generation War and Other Myths by : Antulio Joseph Echevarria
Download or read book Fourth-generation War and Other Myths written by Antulio Joseph Echevarria. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 2015
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Book Synopsis Myths, Gender and the Military Conquest of Air and Sea by :
Download or read book Myths, Gender and the Military Conquest of Air and Sea written by . This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the First World War the spaces and zones within which submarines and aircraft have operated have been a major part of military activity. At the same time, air and sea have been associated with the visions and practices of civilian technological conquests. Both the military and civilian conquering of the depths of the sea and the 'third dimension' have been marked by the creation of myths, which show fascinating similarities and contrasts. These phenomena have been more or less explicitly determined by gender constructions and semantics as well as by discourses of nationalism, technology and modernity. The article of this volume are concerned with British and German narratives, legends and mythemes that intertwine in different ways to shape memory and practices of remembrance, through which military and civil matters, hopes and fears overlap and blend together. They address the tangible effects that the military conquest of new regions produce on civil life, and conversely also reveal the controversies contained within that which is forgotten, suppressed, and does not wish to be known about the militarization of spaces, environments and technologies. The articles bring these different aspects into focus, and on these bases they are organized into three sections: national competition, the meanings ascribed to space or spaces, and remembrance and memory politics within popular and official culture. engl.
