Awards

• Winner of Bryce Wood Book Award 2011

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Author:   Jody Pavilack (Assistant Professor , University of Montana)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9780271037691

ISBN 10:   0271037695
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   01 March 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Preface: Beginning at the End Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Communists, Coal Miners, and Chilean Democracy Part I Hopes and Promises 1. From Soldiers of Revolution to Citizen Workers 2. Challenging Exclusion: The Birth of the Popular Front in the Coal Region 3. From Tremors to Quakes: The Popular Front Wins the Presidency in 1938 Part II Collaboration and Conflict 4. Workers Contend with the Companies and the Popular Front Government, 1940-1942 5. With a Bullet in His Heart and the Chilean Flag in His Hand : Police Shootings in Lota, October 1942 6. Soldiers of Democracy : Collaboration and Conflict During World War II 7. General Strikes and States of Siege: Polarization in the Postwar Transition Part III Rupture and Betrayal 8. The People Call You Gabriel : Communist-Backed Gonzalez Videla Reaches the Presidential Palace 9. The Great Betrayal: Gonzalez Videla and the Coal Miners' Strike of October 1947 10. Democracy Under Siege: Gonzalez Videla's Damned Law, Internment Camps, and Mass Deportations Conclusion: Coalition Politics in the History of Chilean Democracy Bibliography Index

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[Jody Pavilack] does an excellent job of summarizing Chilean politics from the 1920s through the 1940s. --Michael MonteOn, The Americas

[Jody Pavilack] does an excellent job of summarizing Chilean politics from the 1920s through the 1940s. Michael Monteon, The Americas

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Jody Pavilack is Associate Professor of History at the University of Montana.

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