London : Zed, c1999.

xii, 335 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-327) and index.

Introduction: Violence and Fear in Latin America / Dirk Kruijt, Kees Koonings -- Violence and Nation-building in Latin America -- Violence in the Traditional Order -- Mass Politics, Political Violence and 'Internal Warfare' -- Violence in Post-authoritarian Latin America -- Threatening a Peaceful Social Order: Poverty, Informality and Exclusion -- Societies of Fear: Their Causes and Consequences -- Outline of the Book -- The Social, Political and Ethnic Dimensions of Civil War -- Exercises in State Terrorism: the Counter-insurgency Campaigns in Guatemala and Peru / Dirk Kruijt -- Peru: the Civil War, Shining Path and the Military -- Guatemala: the Permanent Low Intensity Warfare -- National Executives of Peru, 1930-99 -- National Executives of Guatemala, 1930-99 -- Reaping the Whirlwind: the Rondas Campesinas and the Defeat of Sendero Luminoso in Ayacucho / Carlos Ivan Degregori -- The Rural Young and the Peasantry -- The Organization of Production -- The New Power -- Andean vs Senderista Rationality -- The Security of the Population -- Adaptation-in-resistance -- Externalization -- Peasant Resistance and the Rondas Campesinas -- Blind Spots and the Defeat of Shining Path -- Essences in Action -- Conceptions of Time and Space -- Andean Culture -- 'Welcome to the Nightmare': Thoughts on the Faceless Warriors of the Lacandona Revolt of 1994 (Chiapas, Mexico) / Arij Ouweneel -- Inside and Outside -- Voices from the Jungle -- Voices from the Mountain -- Restoring Order -- The Long-term Consequences of Violence, Terror and Fear.

Violence -- Latin America.

Political violence -- Latin America.

Terrorism -- Latin America.

State-sponsored terrorism -- Latin America.

Insurgency -- Latin America.

Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1948-

Koonings, Kees.

Kruijt, Dirk.

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