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A call to conscience : the anti/Contra War campaign / Roger Peace.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peace, Roger C. (Roger Craft), 1952- author.
- Series:
- Culture, politics, and the cold war.
- Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Contra Program (Central Intelligence Agency).
- Peace movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Peace movements.
- Solidarity--United States--History--20th century.
- Solidarity.
- Nicaragua--Politics and government--1979-1990.
- Nicaragua.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 307 p. ) map ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- U.S.-Nicaragua relations, the Sandinista Revolution, and the Contra War
- An overview of the Contra War debate
- Origins of the anti/contra war campaign
- Expansion of the anti/Contra War campaign, 1983/84
- Organizational dynamics of a decentralized campaign
- The politics of transnational solidarity
- Meeting the political challenge, 1985/86
- Sustaining the anti/Contra War campaign, 1987/90.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-204-6
- OCLC:
- 830023215
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