A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) - Softcover

Buch 23 von 50: Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond

Peace, Roger

 
9781558499324: A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1558499326 ISBN 13: 9781558499324
Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Unlike earlier U.S. interventions in Latin America, the Reagan administration's attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua during the 1980s was not allowed to proceed quietly. Tens of thousands of American citizens organized and agitated against U.S. aid to the counterrevolutionary guerrillas, known as "contras." Believing the Contra War to be unnecessary, immoral, and illegal, they challenged the administration's Cold War stereotypes, warned of "another Vietnam," and called on the United States to abide by international norms.

A Call to Conscience offers the first comprehensive history of the anti–Contra War campaign and its Nicaragua connections. Roger Peace places this eight-year campaign in the context of previous American interventions in Latin America, the Cold War, and other grassroots oppositional movements. Based on interviews with American and Nicaraguan citizens and leaders, archival records of activist organizations, and official government documents, this book reveals activist motivations, analyzes the organizational dynamics of the anti–Contra War campaign, and contrasts perceptions of the campaign in Managua and Washington.

Peace shows how a variety of civic groups and networks—religious, leftist, peace, veteran, labor, women's rights—worked together in a decentralized campaign that involved extensive transnational cooperation.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Roger Peace is adjunct professor of history at Tallahassee Community College.

Roger Peace is adjunct professor of history at Tallahassee Community College.

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Verlag
University of Massachusetts Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1558499326
ISBN 13 
9781558499324
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307
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