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Military Government and the Movement Toward Democracy in South America

Edited by Howard Handelman and Thomas G. Sanders
Reviewed by Robert D. Crassweller
Fall 1981
Military Government and the Movement Toward Democracy in South America
Edited by Howard Handelman and Thomas G. Sanders
Indiana University Press
1981
388 pp.
$29.95
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Presented in the format of unrevised Reports by American University Field Staff representatives from 1975 to 1980, these essays analyze the authoritarian military regimes in Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, their varying degrees of control, and their uneven movement toward civilian government.

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