Uses 1996 strike by Colombian coca workers as site to study the state and social movements, analyzing how peasants denied full citizenship become political players in a way that defines the Colombian state in the international arena.
Uses 1996 strike by Colombian coca workers as site to study the state and social movements, analyzing how peasants denied full citizenship become political players in a way that defines the Colombian state in the international arena.
"Paramilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of identity-based mass violence in the modern world, but detailed analysis of these dynamics is rare. Exploring the case of former Yugoslavia, Kate Ferguson exposes the relationships between paramilita…
This volume explains why the end of the Great War brought not peace but continued conflict. The book contributes to an understanding of the transition from war to peace and shows how paramilitary violence helped legitimize both fascism and communism, and also many of the new nat…
The First World War did not end in November 1918. In Russia and Eastern Europe it finished up to a year earlier, and both there and elsewhere in the world it triggered conflicts that lasted down to 1923. Paramilitary formations were prominent in this continuation of the war. Par…
This volume explains why the end of the Great War brought not peace but continued conflict. The book contributes to an understanding of the transition from war to peace and shows how paramilitary violence helped legitimize both fascism and communism, and also many of the new nat…
"Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In this book, Aldo Civico draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of th…