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Author:   Sebastian Huhn ,  Hannes Warnecke-Berger
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   4.547kg
ISBN:  

9781349957200

ISBN 10:   1349957208
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   22 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PrologueVictor Hugo Acuña Ortega 1. The Enigma of Violent Realities in Central America: Towards a Historical PerspectiveSebastian Huhn and Hannes Warnecke-Berger  2. How to Explain and How Not to Explain Contemporary Criminal Violence in Central AmericaHeidrun Zinecker 3. Of pandillas, pirucas, and Pablo Escobar in the barrio: Historical change and continuity in patterns of Nicaraguan gang violenceDennis Rodgers 4. Memories of Violence in the Salvadoran Civil War: Comparing the Memoirs of Civilian Elites and Former Military OfficersErik Ching 5. Questioning the Crime Wave: On the Rise of Punitive Populism in Central America since the 1950sSebastian Huhn 6. The Salvadoran Armed Left and Revolutionary Violence (1970 – 1980)Alberto Martín Álvarez and Eudald Cortina OreroThe Violence of Dispossession: Guatemala in the 19th and 20th CenturiesJim Handy 7. On Collective Violence in 19th-Century GuatemalaMichael Riekenberg 8. Borderlands and Public Violence in a Shadow Polity: Costa Ricans, Nicaraguans and the Legacy of the Central American FederationRobert H. Holden 9. Forms of Violence in Past and Present: El Salvador and Belize in Comparative PerspectiveHannes Warnecke-Berger 10. The Violence of Dispossession: Guatemala in the 19th and 20th CenturiesJim Handy

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On the whole, the volume offers insights and interpretations from which scholars who study violence and Central America will benefit. (David Carey, Jr., Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, October, 2017)

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Sebastian Huhn is Researcher and Lecturer at Osnabrueck University, Germany. His research focusses on Central American history, violence and crime in Central America and the Global South, and national identity, migration, and youth violence. His publications include several books and articles in English, Spanish, and German. Hannes Warnecke-Berger is Junior Researcher at the Special Research Council 1199 at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His research touches on the political economy of development and focuses on violence in the Global South. He has conducted extensive field research in El Salvador, Belize, and Jamaica.

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