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Author Stanley, William

Title The Protection Racket State : Elite Politics, Military Extortion, and Civil War in El Salvador
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (341 pages)
Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Self-Defense, Class Oppression, and Extortion: Alternative Views of State Violence; 2. Antecedents: The Matanza and the Establishment of Military Rule; 3. The Failure of Institutional Military Rule; 4. Experiments in State Terrorism: Repression and Polarization under Carlos Romero; 5. The Reformist Coup and the First Revolutionary Governing Junta; 6. Descent into Mass Murder; 7. Breaking the Protection Racket: From War to Peace; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Notes; References; Index
Summary A chilling examination into why states kill
Notes Print version record
Subject Death squads -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century
Political persecution -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century
State-sponsored terrorism -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century
Social sciences.
History.
social sciences.
history (discipline)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.
Death squads
History
Political persecution
Politics and government
Social sciences
State-sponsored terrorism
SUBJECT El Salvador -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041478
Subject El Salvador
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781439905494
1439905495