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A Call to Conscience
Roger Craft Peace
其他書名
The Anti/Contra War Campaign
出版
Univ of Massachusetts Press
, 2012
主題
History / United States / 20th Century
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Political Science / International Relations / General
Political Science / Peace
Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American
Religion / Religion, Politics & State
Social Science / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
9781558499324
1558499326
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4CxZURlgyyQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Unlike earlier U.S. interventions in Latin America, the Reagan administration's attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua during the 1980s was not allowed to proceed quietly. Tens of thousands of American citizens organized and agitated against U.S. aid to the counterrevolutionary guerrillas, known as "contras." Believing the Contra War to be unnecessary, immoral, and illegal, they challenged the administration's Cold War stereotypes, warned of "another Vietnam," and called on the United States to abide by international norms.
A Call to Conscience
offers the first comprehensive history of the anti?Contra War campaign and its Nicaragua connections. Roger Peace places this eight-year campaign in the context of previous American interventions in Latin America, the Cold War, and other grassroots oppositional movements. Based on interviews with American and Nicaraguan citizens and leaders, archival records of activist organizations, and official government documents, this book reveals activist motivations, analyzes the organizational dynamics of the anti?Contra War campaign, and contrasts perceptions of the campaign in Managua and Washington.
Peace shows how a variety of civic groups and networks?religious, leftist, peace, veteran, labor, women's rights?worked together in a decentralized campaign that involved extensive transnational cooperation.