This collection represents 309 books, collected by Walter J. Petry from 1983-1992. They have been written or edited by historians, political scientists, sociologists, philosophers, theologians, journalists and travelers on various aspects of the Revolution.
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American policy in Nicaragua;"Henry L. Stimson's American policy in Nicaragua : the lasting legacy
Henry L. Stimson, Paul H. Boeker, and Andres Perez
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Sandinista communism and rural Nicaragua
Janusz Bugajski and Mark Falcoff
Bugajski concentrates on the Sandinista's agrarian strategies in order to distinguish between short-term policies and long-term programs. It addresses the question of whether any durable and novel ideological, political, and economic elements have been introduced in Nicaragua in terms of Marxist-Leninist models of state socialism--expecially vis-a-vis peasantry and the country's ethnic minorities.
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Nicaragua's other revolution : religious faith and political struggle
Michael Dodson and Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy
The 1979 rebellion in Nicaragua was the first in modern Latin America to be carried out with the active participation and support of Christians. Like all revolutions, the Nicaraguan Revolution has provoked controversy and hostility, and the Christian presence has been a focal point in the debate. In this work Michael Dodson and Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy offer a detailed study of the religious sources of the revolution set against the backgound of the revolutionary traditions of the United States. Nicaragua's Other Revolutionplaces the experience of the Nicaraguan Revolution in a historical framework that extends back to the Protestant Reformation and in an institutional framework that encompasses the whole of Nicaraguan politics. Examining the broad process of religious change, this work explores how that process interacted with the political struggles that culminated in the revolution. Dodson and O'Shaughnessy conclude that the religious values and attitudes arising out of postconciliar renewal in the church contributed powerfully to demands for revolutionary change in Nicaragua. In England and America the Protestant Reformation gave a tremendous boost to demands for democratic changes in society and politics. This work shows that something similar happened in Catholic Central America in the post-Medellin period. Changes in religious thought and action were part of, and served to reinforce and stimulate, a wider movement for social and political change. Without denying the importance of Marxism, the authors demonstrate that other important influences are at work there.
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Nicaragua divided : La Prensa and the Chamorro legacy
Patricia Taylor Edmisten
In this story of Chamorro’s late husband, La Prensa publisher and editor Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, and of their family, Patricia Edmisten clarifies the interrelationship of family, politics, and economics critical to an understanding of the Nicaraguan conflict and people. As a Time article has suggested, "The private pain of the Chamorro family is a microcosm of Nicaragua’s national agony." The book’s fulcrum is Chamorro’s 1978 assassination, an event that galvanized anti-Somoza forces and brought the Sandinista front to power. Edmisten traces the family’s fortunes from the beginnings of the antagonism between the Chamorros and Somozas to the Iran-Contra affair and the present ideological division among the Chamorros, a division Edmisten finds typical of Nicaraguan families today and one that reflects the polarity in Nicaraguan society.
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To lead as equals : rural protest and political consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979
Jeffrey L. Gould
This book is a carefully argued study of peasants and labor during the Somoza regime, focusing on popular movements in the economically strategic department of Chinandega in western Nicaragua. Jeffrey Gould traces the evolution of group consciousness among peasants and workers as they moved away from extreme dependency on the patron to achieve an autonomous social and political ideology. In doing so, he makes important contributions to peasant studies and theories of revolution, as well as our understanding of Nicaraguan history.
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Thanks to God and the Revolution : the oral history of a Nicaraguan family.
Dianne Walta Hart
In a restaurant in Estelí, Nicaragua, Dianne Walta Hart, a visiting American scholar, and Marta Lopez, member of a Nicaraguan women's organization, began to talk of the Sandinista revolution and of the changes it had brought, especially for women. Their conversation was to continue at intervals over the next four years; it expanded to include Marta's mother, Doña María, her sister, Leticia, and her brother, Omar, a Sandinista soldier. From these conversations has come the powerful and moving oral history of a Nicaraguan family in the twentieth century: a testimonial by ordinary people caught up in civil strife and living in a country devastated by war and inflation. Laying bare the inner workings of the Lopez family, Dianne Walta Hart evokes a picture of a close-knit and loving family. Tracing their story from the years of repression and guerrilla activity under Somoza through an era of personal and political revolution in the 1970s and 1980s, she shows people persevering against every kind of adversity.
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Life stories of the Nicaraguan revolution
Denis Lynn Daly Heyck
Describing Nicaraguan life during wartime, this book comprises a series of conversations which offer an authentic perspective on the strife which has gripped the country.
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Nicaragua : a country guide
Kent Norsworthy and Tom Barry
Nicaragua: A Country Guide is the most important book to date for understanding the political and intellectual origins of Violeta Chamorro's government and, therefore, the bases for political conflict in Nicaragua over the first half of the 1990s.
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The Contras, 1980-1989 : a special kind of politics
R. (Rogelio) Pardo-Maurer and Edward N. Luttwak
Former political officer for the Nicaraguan Resistance (the Contras), Pardo-Maurer shares his experiences of the factional dynamics of that group in this provocative study. He analyzes the principle factions or issues of contention, devoting special attention to the influence of the U.S. political process on Resistance policy.
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Sandino, the testimony of a Nicaraguan patriot : 1921-1934
Sergio Ramírez and Robert Edgar Conrad
For the first time in English, here are the impassioned words of the remarkable Nicaraguan hero and martyr Augusto C. Sandino, for whom the recent revolutionary regime was named. This work, which is based on the two-volume Spanish edition compiled by Sergio Ram!rez, includes an introduction by Robert Conrad setting Sandino's life in historical context.
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Nicaragua's continuing revolution : a chronology for 1977 to 1990
David A. Ridenour, David Almasi, and Charles Robb
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Nicaragua tan violentamente dulce. English;"Nicaraguan sketches
Julio Cortázar and Kathleen Weaver
After making a clandestine visit to Nicaragua in 1976, Cortazar writes fifteen essays of the war-ravaged country. They deal with the artistic renaissance following the revolution, the contra war, and the writer's role in Latin America.
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Memoirs of a counterrevolutionary.
Arturo Cruz, Jr.
A founding member of the Sandinista movement explains his defections to the Contra resistance, his intricate involvement with both the KGB and the CIA, his relationship with Oliver North and love affair with Fawn Hall.
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The Catholic Church and social change in Nicaragua
Manzar Foroohar
This book presents an in-depth, uniquely historical perspective on Nicaragua, focusing on the key role of the Catholic Church in the political, social, and religious issues that confront this country today. It examines the profound transformation of the Church via the radical approach of liberation theology and the development of the clergy's socio-political alliances in Nicaragua. Foroohar's analysis highlights the complex role of religion in politics and social change in Latin America.
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Nicaragua
William Frank Gentile
Nicaragua has become an American obsession. Although its population is less than Oklahoma's, it drove the Reagan administration into desperate acts such as the covert mining of its harbours and the Iran-Contra fiasco. But through it all, the country and its people have remained an enigma. William Gentile's camera probes deep into Nicaragua and discovers a simple, innocent people trying to make a life amid a brutal war. An interview with Sergio Ramirez, internationally respected author and vice president of Nicaragua, explores the country's past under Somoza's dictatorship and its present under Sandinista rule. Gentile's photographs and the candid comments of Ramirez - on the tenth anniversary of the Sandinista revolution - make this a document of historical importance.
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Faith and revolution in Nicaragua : convergence and contradictions
Guilio Girardi and Phillip Berryman
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Somoza Falling
Anthony Lake
A former director of policy planning for President Carter, explores how foreign policy is made and offers an inside perspective of the workings of the State Department, using as a case study the fall of Anastasio Somoza.
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Selections. English & Spanish. 1989;"Have you seen a red curtain in my weary chamber? : poems, stories and essays
Tomás Borge Martínez, Russell Bartley, and Kent Johnson
