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Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America: An Oral History 1783608021, 9781783608027
Table of contents :
Front Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Select Acronyms and Abbreviations
1 Revolutionaries
2 Historical context
3 From insurgents to socialists
4 Revolutionary fervour (the 1960s)
5 The mature years (early 1970s–late 1980s)
6 The years of soft power (1990s–present)
7 The legacy
Appendix: Biographical Data of Interviewees
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Back Cover
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CUBA AND REVOLUTIONARY LATIN AMERICA
About the author Dirk Kruijtis professor emeritus of development studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University. A sociologist turned anthropologist, he has undertaken research on entrepreneurs and the labour class, ethnicity and exclusion, and military dictatorship and guerrilla movements, and has conducted fieldwork in many Latin American and Caribbean countries. His previous oral history books are about the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Velasco Alvarado in Peru and the guerrilla movements in Central America.
CUBA AND REVOLUTIONARY LATIN AMERICA AN ORAL HISTORY D I R K K RU I J T
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Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America: An Oral History was first published in 2017 by Zed
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