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This article examines the politics of naming Sandinistas in Nicaragua during two periods of intense political and military struggle: the era of the Sandinista Revolution and Contra War (1979-1990) and the era of the Sandino rebellion against the US Marines and Nicaraguan National Guard (1927-1936). Focusing principally on the rhetorical and narrative strategies used by the USA and its Nicaraguan allies, the article explores the delegitimising master narratives concocted by these dominant groups and the efforts of two generations of Sandinistas and their allies to challenge these narratives. It argues that the politics of naming was embedded within a larger politics of storytelling, and that effective challenges to dominant groups' epithets must be grounded in historically informed challenges to the larger narratives from which they spring. (InWent/DÜI)

AbstractThis study of organised political violence in north-central Nicaragua from 1926 to 1934 focuses on the infamous Conservative gang leader Anastacio Hernández and on Sandino's rebels. The contexts of a weak central state and local-regionalcaudillismoare outlined. It is shown that after the 1926–27 civil war. Hernández and others produced ritualised spectacular violence in the service of their Chamorristacaudillopatrons. The language, practices, and characteristics of organised violence are examined. It is argued that Sandino's rebels appropriated these tools of political struggle, and that changes and continuities in the organisation of violence in Nicaraguan history merit greater attention.

Frontmatter -- American Encounters/Globallnteractions -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- I: Theoretical Concerns -- Close Encounters: Toward a New Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations -- The Decentered Center and the Expansionist Periphery: The Paradoxes of Foreign-Local Encounter -- The Enterprise of Knowledge: Representational Machines of Informal Empire -- II: Empirical Studies -- Landscape and the Imperial Subject: US. Images of the Andes, 1859- 1930 -- Love in the Tropics: Marriage, Divorce, and the Construction of Benevolent Colonialism in Puerto Rico, 1898-1910 -- Mercenaries in the Theater of War: Publicity, Technology, and the Illusion of Power during the Brazilian Naval Revolt of 1893 -- The Sandino Rebellion Revisited: Civil War, Imperialism, Popular Nationalism, and State Formation Muddied Up Together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934 -- The Cult of the Airplane among US. Military Men and Dominicans during the US. Occupation and the Trujillo Regime -- Central American Encounters with Rockefeller Public Health, 1914-1921 -- Living in Macondo: Economy and Culture in a United Fruit Company Banana Enclave in Colombia -- From Welfare Capitalism to the Free Market in Chile: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Copper Mines -- Everyday Forms of Transnational Collaboration: US. Film Propaganda in Cold War Mexico -- Gringo Chickens with Worms: Food and Nationalism in the Dominican Republic -- III: Final Reflections -- Turning to Culture -- Social Fields and Cultural Encounters -- From Reading to Seeing: Doing and Undoing Imperialism in the Visual Arts -- Contributors -- Index

"This anthology is breathtaking in its geographic and temporal sweep."-Canadian Journal of History The American media has recently "discovered" children's experiences in present-day wars. A week-long series on the plight of child soldiers in Africa and Latin America was published in Newsday and newspapers have decried the U.S. government's reluctance to sign a United Nations treaty outlawing the use of under-age soldiers. These and numerous other stories and programs have shown that the number of children impacted by war as victims, casualties, and participants has mounted drastically during the last few decades. Although the scale on which children are affected by war may be greater today than at any time since the world wars of the twentieth century, children have been a part of conflict since the beginning of warfare. Children and War shows that boys and girls have routinely contributed to home front war efforts, armies have accepted under-aged soldiers for centuries, and war-time experiences have always affected the ways in which grown-up children of war perceive themselves and their societies. The essays in this collection range from explorations of childhood during the American Revolution and of the writings of free black children during the Civil War to children's home front war efforts during World War II, representations of war and defeat in Japanese children's magazines, and growing up in war-torn Liberia. Children and War provides a historical context for two centuries of children's multi-faceted involvement with war