...Guillermo Cespedes Colección Somoza. Documentos para la historia de Nicaragua . Vol. 3 ( 1531-1536 ). Madrid , 1954 ; Vol. 4 ( 1536 ). Madrid , 1955 . Pp. vi , 535 ; viii , 789 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

...Thomas Walker Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua: 1953–1961 . By Gambone Michael D. . Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers , 1997 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 247 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Given...

...Thomas W. Walker The United States and Somoza, 1933-1956: A Revisionist Look . By Clark Paul Coe Jr. Westport : Praeger , 1992 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 239 pp. Cloth . $47.95 . Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 This book is a welcome addition...

...Jeffrey Gould Walter makes the original and compelling argument that a close link existed between the expansion of the state and economy and Somoza’s ability to neutralize the opposition, particularly during the peak of the anti-Somoza movement between 1944 and 1947. Somoza’s efforts to augment...

...Bruce Calder The last chapters of this work treat the Somoza government and the guardia up to the 1970s. Though of necessity based on considerably less documentary evidence than earlier chapters, they give the reader a well-informed analysis of the last decades in Nicaragua, both within...

...Sergio Diaz-Briquets The Nicaraguan Revolution in Health: From Somoza to the Sandinistas . By Donahue John M. . South Hadley, MA : Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc. , 1986 . Figures. Tables. References. Index . Pp. xvii , 156 . Cloth. $27.95 . Copyright 1987 by Duke...

... speaking to an angry crowd of a humanist revolution as a product of the Nicaraguan student movements. Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest, and Coalition Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua . By Claudia Rueda . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2019 . Photographs. Figures. Table. Notes...

...Guillermo Céspedes Colección Somoza. Documentos para la historia de Nicaragua. Tomo XVII (1550) . Madrid , 1957 . Pp. vi , 555 . Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 ...

...Guillermo Céspedes Copyright 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Colección Somoza. Documentos para la historia de Nicaragua . Tomo XI (1544-1545) . Tomo XII (1543-1546) . Tomo XIII (1543-1548) . Tomo XIV (1545-1548) . Tomo XV (1549-1550) . Madrid , 1956 . Pp. 561 , 550...

...Guillermo Cespedes Colección Somoza. Documentos para la historia de Nicaragua . Madrid , 1954 . 2 vols . Pp. 536 , 579 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

...Guillermo Céspedes Colección Somoza. Documentos para la historia de Nicaragua . Tomo V (1536-1538) . Tomo VI (1539-1540) . Madrid , 1955 . Pp. iii , 563 ; iv , 561 . Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ...

...Guillermo Céspedes Colección Somoza. Documentos para la historia de Nicaragua . Tomo VII (1541-1543). Tomo VIII (1543-1544). Tomo IX (1544). Tomo X (1544) . Madrid , 1955-1956 . Pp. vi , 563 ; vi , 629 ; viii , 768 ; viii , 747 . Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ...

...Thomas W. Walker; Sergio Zeledón Dictators Never Die: A Portrait of Nicaragua and the Somozas . By Crawley Eduardo . New York , 1979 . St. Martin’s Press . Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 180 . Cloth. $14.50 . Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980...

... an important, untold story that many people didn’t want to hear about early Nicara-guan feminists, women leaders in the Somozas’ Nationalist Liberal Party (PLN), and the Somozas’ female grassroots following. González- Rivera’s book forces us to see the Somozas in a new light. Focusing on the Somozas’ female...

... to insist on its doomed “Somocismo without Somoza” policy. Solaún’s main goal is to explain why, in his view, the United States responded in such a hapless way to Nicaragua’s revolutionary crisis. When the ambassador arrived in Nicaragua in September 1977, the pro-U.S. dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle...

... to the United States being simultaneously a bastion of democracy and militantly anticommunist; the Somoza regime advocating modernization while the regime's main revolutionary opponent, the Sandinistas, embraced a similar modernizing ethos; and the Alliance for Progress backing the Somoza regime, which...

... Nicaraguan poets, writers, and activists in response to the state's utopian discourses. The first Somoza, for instance (Anastasio Somoza García, who ruled from 1937 to 1956), projected a utopian vision of economic stability, social order, technological modernity, legitimate violence making (via the Guardia...

... of Westview’s Profiles of Contemporary Latin American Nations series and is the first scholarly survey of Nicaragua to appear in English since the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. Walker is one of few American political scientists who did systematic research on Nicaragua before the revolution. The book...

... . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 The recent past has witnessed a wave of new books and new editions of older works dealing with Nicaragua. This interest is due to the prolonged, ultimately successful struggle to overthrow that nation’s ruling Somoza family and to the implications...

... of privileged interviews with U.S. and Nicaraguan participants. The Carter administration confronted a series of dilemmas in Central American policy: how to treat the corrupt, authoritarian regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle; whether to contribute to his overthrow, and, if so, how to find a mechanism that would...