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The Sandino Rebellion Revisited: Civil War, Imperialism, Popular Nationalism, and State Formation Muddied Up Together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934

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The Sandino Rebellion Revisited: Civil War, Imperialism, Popular Nationalism, and State Formation Muddied Up Together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934
Author(s)Schroeder, Michael J.
AbstractThis essay is offered as a contribution to a larger project devoted to rethinking the ‘postcolonial encounter’ between the United States and Latin America. For Nicaragua, of course, that “encounter” has been shaped most of all by exceedingly lopsided relations of power: the United States has obviously influenced and changed Nicaragua far more than Nicaragua has influenced or changed the United States. The essay is therefore conceived as an intervention in Nicaraguan history and historiography. It is intended, at one level, as a kind of provocation, an effort to muddy up the waters of the master narratives of the period. These dominant stories tend strongly to reduce contradictory social processes to linear sequences of events. This essay explores how U.S. intervention entwined with and transformed ongoing social struggles, forms of collective action, and the organized violence of the Segovias in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Pages208-268
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceClose Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of US-Latin American Relations
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PubDate1998
ISBN_ISSN0822320991 (10); 978-0822320999 (13)
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