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In Their Own Words

Robert H. Holden, PhD'86

  • Author
  • Armies Without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960
  • ISBN 0195161203
  • Oxford University Press

Public violence, scarcely analyzed and little understood, is the subject of this pathbreaking research into the histories of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Holden shows how the national and international dimensions of public violence intersected there to produce "armies without nations."

Posted October 8, 2004