This series of essays on insurgency and revolution focuses on events in Latin America since 1956. The contributors discuss revolutionary theory, the nature of social movements and models of social action. Topics raised include terror, guerilla regimes, mobilizing peasants, and the vulnerability of regimes to revolution.

About the Author
TIMOTHY P. WICKHAM-CROWLEY is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, where he also advises undergraduates as Associate Director of the Latin American Studies Program. His teaching and research interests lie generally in comparative political sociology and Latin America, with a special focus on social movements, revolutions, development, and inequality., Wickham-Crowley has published several artic1es on guerrillas, terror, and revolution, and is the author of the forthcoming work, Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America (1991). He is currently studying and writing on the comparative experience of development and underdevelopment in the New World since 1500.


Book Information
ISBN 9780873327053
Author Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint M.E. Sharpe
Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
Weight(grams) 521g