Long Live the Revolution-Essays on Latin America

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Long Live the Revolution brings together Eric J. Hobsbawm's articles on Latin America, which he described as "conquering me irreversibly". We watch through the eyes of a meticulous historian the upheavals that took place on the continent for 40 years, starting from the period when “Latin America brought back the hope of revolution in the 1960s”: In a vivid picture drawn by Hobsbawm's skillful hands; The rapid urbanization of the continent, landless peasants and peasant movements, the effects of numerous military coups, the sometimes transformation of these coups into a "revolution", revolutions, the normalization of acts of violence, especially in Colombia, and the emergence of guerrilla groups such as FARC are depicted. Long Live the Revolution offers the opportunity to read how the slogan of viva la revolucion rose in Latin America and its fate, from the pen of Hobsbawm, one of the world's most important historians.
“What Latin America revealed was not regional but general. It was a laboratory of historical change; often it was different from what was expected; It was a continent that refuted accepted truths. It was a region where historical transformation was taking place at full speed. (...) Still, one cannot help but wonder why the concepts valid in Europe are so incompatible with this continent, why the institutions and movements of the Western world have so far been a failure in Latin America. "The answer to this may perhaps provide us with a clue in solving the main problem." - ERIC J. HOBSBAWM -

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

First Print Year: 2018

Number of Pages: 464

Size: 13 x 19.5