| Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) |  | Author: Elisabeth Jean Wood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Pages: 332
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Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0521010500
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.84053
EAN: 9780521010504
ASIN: 0521010500
Publication Date: August 4, 2003
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Elisabeth Wood's account of insurgent collective action in El Salvador is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who supported the insurgency and those who did not, as well as on interviews with military commanders from both sides. She explains how widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action. Those who supplied tortillas, information, and other aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did not.
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Widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action. Those who supplied tortillas, information, and other aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did not. Wood's explanation is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who supported the insurgency and those who did not over a period of many years, and interviews with military commanders of both sides.
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EXCELLENT BOOK!! October 16, 2009
Salvatruco (Durham, NH)
Wood's book is an excellent weaving togther of the of strands of the land question in Usulutan department. The use of before-the-revolution-and-after "agrarian reform" maps constructed by former rebel participants and supporters is particularly ingenious.
She does a great job of even-handedly assessing a still contentious issue in the historiography of U.S. foreign policy.
She treated her interview subjects with great care and fairness, and tried to get at the roots of what made the Salvadoran conflict a civil war.
A criticism is that she appears to accept to eagerly reports of rebel arms transfers along the Usulutan coastline. Hundreds of millions the GOES received from the U.S. made those canoes full of rifles for the FMLN from Nicaragua pale in comparison.
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