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...Francis C. Haber A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom . 2 vols . By White Andrew Dickson . New York , 1960 . Dover Publications, Inc . Index . Pp. 415 , 474 . Paper . $1.85 each. Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Although...

... than font and press. Some insurgent psychological warfare efforts were successful, nevertheless, in helping to raise a peasant army of 25,000 within two weeks of the Grito. The illiterate Indians and castes along the army’s route were won by means of slogans, songs, and banners which aroused basic...

...Timothy Wickham-Crowley Guerrilla Warfare . Bison Books Edition . By Guevara Che . Introduction by Becker Marc . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1998 (1969) . Illustrations, xvii, 175 pp. Paper , $9.95 . Copyright 1999 by Duke University Press 1999...

...Elizabeth M. Brumfiel The strength of this volume is its ability to define the changing demographic, economic, and political contexts that intensify warfare along state peripheries. A glaring weakness is its inattention (in all but Ferguson's study) to the importance of gender in the operation...

...Christon I. Archer Amphibious Warfare in the Eighteenth Century: The British Expedition to the West Indies, 1740-1742 . By Harding Richard . Suffolk : Boydell Press , 1991 . Plates. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 248 pp. Cloth . $67.00...

...Luis Herrán Ávila Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War . By Kyle Burke . The New Cold War History . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2018 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 351 pp. Cloth , $35.00...

...Harry Franqui-Rivera The Caribbean War Front in World War II: The Untold Story of U-boats, Spies, and Economic Warfare . By José L. Bolívar Fresneda . Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers , 2021 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii, 272 pp. Paper...

...Robert H. Dix Democracy in Colombia: Clientelistic Politics and Guerrilla Warfare . By Osterling Jorge Pablo . New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers , 1989 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Figures. Index . Pp. xxii , 353 . Cloth . Copyright 1990 by Duke University Press 1990...

... of the emotional baggage usually associated with the topic. At the same time, it recognizes the intrinsic importance of that emotion: ‘Che’s Guerrilla Warfare thus reaffirms the value of human volition and commitment, the importance of individual will and action” (p. 5). The extensive literature on this subject...

... along the southern shores of the Río de la Plata and the western banks of the Paraná supported a dense population according to the conditions prevailing in aboriginal America. The military resistance of these people to Spanish invasion at the time of Spain’s military vigor, not only by guerrilla warfare...

...David H. Zook, Jr. Che Guevara on Guerrilla Warfare . Introduction by Peterson Major Harries-Clichy USMCR . New York , 1961 . Frederick A. Praeger . Pp. xxxiii , 85 . $3.95 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Ernesto Guevara, the Argentine-born brains...

...Neill Macaulay As a tactical manual Guevara’s Guerrilla Warfare needs some revision. In Cuba the guerrillas faced an enemy almost incapable of airlifting troops. Guerrilla sieges could be prolonged, and army relief columns were lucrative ambush targets. Now that most governments can dispatch...

.... The book sympathetically describes the “origins, development, strategy and tactics of urban guerrilla warfare” (p. 2) in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. An introductory essay sets the origin and development of urban guerrilla movements in historico-political perspective. Other revolutionary models...

... ‘revolutionary art’ to ‘socialist realism’ (which he despised) to guerrilla warfare and socialist planning was always provocative and probing. He was never content with prevalent conceptions and received wisdom, and he had an uncharacteristic habit (especially among men of power) of questioning and examining...

...El Colegio de México Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control . By Hassig Ross . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1988 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Chart. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xx , 404 . Cloth . $29.95 . Copyright 1989...

... was surprisingly successful in mobilizing and retaining soldiers as it faced the formidable challenges of modern mass warfare. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Scholars have long pointed to the 1932–1935 Chaco War as a pivotal event in Bolivia's history. The country's disastrous defeat...

... counterinsurgent warfare against the Shining Path and its presumed supporters. These cases reveal that many Ayacuchanos profoundly distrusted their police and court systems. That was especially true for impoverished—and predominantly rural and indigenous—men and women who could not afford lawyers or bribes...