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Free Download Luciano Baracco, "Nicaragua – The Imagining Of A Nation – From Nineteenth-Century Liberals To Twentieth-Century Sandinistas"
English | 2005 | pages: 188 | ISBN: 0875863922, 0875863930 | PDF | 1,4 mb
Nicaragua: The Imagining of a Nation is geared to students and academics of nationalism studies, history, and Latin American studies. Analyzing Nicaragua s post-colonial history, the author studies the Sandinista Revolution in the context of Nicaragua s ongoing efforts at nation-building. Baracco identifies the origins of the Sandinista Revolution in terms of the failure of nineteenth-century liberal regimes to complete the task of constructing Nicaragua as a culturally and historically distinct, sovereign, national entity.

Free Download Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua: 1953-1961 By Michael D. Gambone
1997 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0275959430 | PDF | 2 MB
During the Cold War era, the United States faced the prospect of expanding its power in Central America. But we miscalculated-grievously. After 1945, Central America teemed with leaders willing to alter the region’s quasi-colonial status. Some, like Fidel Castro, sought out revolution to shatter the status quo. Others, like Anastasio Somoza Garcia, attempted to seek out new directions along more subtle paths. Nicaragua subsequently challenged American hegemony in a manner at once more deliberate and more dangerous than any other effort in the hemisphere. The Somoza regime, unlike its contemporaries, chose to utilize American institutions and American preferences to subvert the latter’s power rather than reinforce it. American arrogance, combined with a complacent approach to policy in its global backyard, offered a myriad of political, military, and economic opportunities to a leader willing to take risks. In the years after 1945, Somoza was thus able to peel away layers of clientage until, at certain moments, he could act as a partner of his northern neighbor.

Free Download Nicaragua, 1961-1990: Volume 1: The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship (Latin America at War) by David Francois
English | January 4th, 2019 | ISBN: 1911628216 | 72 pages | True EPUB | 13.75 MB
A history of the Sandinista takeover of this Central American nation and the uneasy decades leading up to it, with maps, photos, and illustrations.