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The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

Lesley Gill

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Description for The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas Paperback. Transnational ethnography and history of the School of the Americas, analyzing the military, peasant, and activist cultures that are linked by this institution. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6147 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since it was founded in 1946. So widely documented is the participation of the School’s graduates in torture, murder, and political repression throughout Latin America that in 2001 the School officially changed its name to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Lesley Gill goes behind the façade and presents a comprehensive portrait of the School of the Americas. Talking to a retired ... Read more

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Paperback

Publication date

2004

Publisher

Duke University Press United States

Number of pages

304

Condition

New

Series

American Encounters/Global Interactions

Number of Pages

304

Place of Publication

North Carolina, United States

ISBN

9780822333920

SKU

V9780822333920

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About Lesley Gill

Lesley Gill is Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair, Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State; Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia; and Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia.

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“Lesley Gill has produced an in-depth exposé of the militaristic mentality, socioethnic tensions, and outrageous atrocities of the empire’s Praetorian Guard. Insightful and richly researched, a work of superior quality.”—Michael Parenti, author of The Terrorism Trap and The Assassination of Julius Caesar “Lesley Gill’s study of the premier military training operation in the Americas is a treasure trove of histories ... Read morethat will provoke a long overdue debate about the values and limits of U.S. engagement in the region.”—Robin Kirk, author of More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America’s War in Colombia “Lesley Gill’s The School of the Americas is an ambitious book that provides the reader with a thorough analysis of the School of the Americas (SOA), and the effects of the SOA’s training on the trainees and on two Andean Communities.”
Silvia Borzutzky
Latin American Research Review
“The notion of impunity which Lesley Gill develops with many insights has far-reaching ramifications and consequences. . . . Gill’s clarity appeals to our reason, love of truth, and common human decency. . .”
Bill Griffin
Catholic Worker
“This book is a hugely impressive, detailed, and fascinating cultural history of jazz in Britain and should be recommended not only to cultural historians but also to historians of the Cold War, the British Left, and those interested in race relations and national identity in twentieth-century Britain.”
James J. Nott
American Historical Review
"[B]reathtaking. . . . This book should make one proud to be in the same profession as its author and appalled at the implications of having a U.S. citizenship."
Gavin Smith
Journal of Latin American Anthropology
"[I]n the wake of recent revelations that suspected terrorists captured by CIA and U.S. special forces in Afghanistan and Iraq have been deliberately hidden from the Red Cross, severely tortured and in some cases abused to death, this book remains immediately relevant. The questions at the heart of the controversy over the school
is the U.S. military teaching the art of atrocity to Latin American soldiers, and do Americans bear responsibility for the horrors that many of the supposedly 'professionalized' graduates of the school have committed?
take on new meaning as the United States engages in actions that bear a damning resemblance to the dirty wars fought in years past in Central and South America."
Peter Kornbluh
Washington Post Book World
"Gill was able to examine the school's folkways and rhetoric, thanks to glasnost-like levels of administrative cooperation. Lessons in thinking in terms of how to 'kill and maim' opposition and to 'dehumanize' those who persist. Gill then traces the paths of various graduates of the school and links their activities directly to the torture and death of 'Latin American peasants, workers, students [and] human rights activists'
i.e., 'opposition.' "
Publishers Weekly
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