Blood and Debt

Released on by Miguel Angel Centeno
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  • Blood and Debt Book Detail

  • Author : Miguel Angel Centeno
  • Release Date : 2015-08-26
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 203
  • ISBN 13 : 0271074191
  • File Size : 46,46 MB
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Blood and Debt by Miguel Angel Centeno PDF Summary

Book Description: What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. Challenging the dominance of this model, Blood and Debt looks at Latin America's much different experience as more relevant to politics today in regions as varied as the Balkans and sub-Saharan Africa. The book's illuminating review of the relatively peaceful history of Latin America from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries reveals the lack of two critical prerequisites needed for war: a political and military culture oriented toward international violence, and the state institutional capacity to carry it out. Using innovative new data such as tax receipts, naming of streets and public monuments, and conscription records, the author carefully examines how war affected the fiscal development of the state, the creation of national identity, and claims to citizenship. Rather than building nation-states and fostering democratic citizenship, he shows, war in Latin America destroyed institutions, confirmed internal divisions, and killed many without purpose or glory.

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