Product Description: Co-winner of the Inaugural AHGBI Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation The aftermath of Argentina's last dictatorship (1976-1983) has traditionally been associated with narratives of suffering, which recall the loss ofthe 30,000 civilians infamously known as the ""disappeared""...read more

Product Description: Due in large part to humanitarian law and transitional justice, the categories of detained-disappeared and forced disappearance are today well established - so much so that in some places like Argentina and Uruguay an intense social life has taken shape and become crystallized around them and in their wake...read more

Product Description: Memory of the Argentina Disappearances examines the history of the production, public circulation, and the interpretations and reinterpretations of the Nunca Más report issued by Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP)...read more

Product Description: HELPING THE POOR IN THE SLUMS OF BUENOS AIRES AND THE DIRTY WAR ON THE MOTHERS

Product Description: Argentina is the only country in the Americas that has successfully erased the presence of Indians, Africans, and mestizos from its national story. Official documents, reports, and censuses have largely omitted any references to the country's non-European inhabitants, mirroring official policies that once included the extermination of indigenous peoples and continued to encourage Europeanization well into the twentieth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Drawing on confidential Argentinian documents and memoranda, Behind the Disappearances documents a seven-year diplomatic war by one of the twentieth century's most brutal regimes. It relates how, starting in 1976, Argentina's military government tried to cripple the UN's human rights machinery in an effort to prevent international condemnation of its policy of disappearances. Initially this attempt succeeded, but in 1980—with encouragement from the Carter administration—UN officials regained the initiative and created a special working group on disappearances that rejuvenated the UN's efforts. This progress was abruptly halted in 1981 when the Reagan administration sided with the Argentinian regime. The result, claims the author, not only undercut the UN's actions against disappearances but also weakened its chances of playing a positive role in aiding Latin America's transition from dictatorship to democracy.

'Translation of moving volume (1990) narrating history of the Argentine mothers' resistance movement, as told by member Mellibovsky. Mothers' testimonies of their children's lives and disappearances are interwoven with group's story. Covers period from Dirty War to early Menem presidency. Translations colloquial and effective. Some notes; useful explanatory list of Argentine names and terms'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/ (view table of contents)

A retired Argentine naval officer candidly discusses his personal participation in the harsh treatment of Argentine dissidents, detailing the military's systematic campaign of torture and murder, the role of the Church, and his own feelings about his behavior. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Revolutionizing Motherhood examines one of the most astonishing human rights movements of recent years. During the Argentine junta's Dirty War against subversives, as tens of thousands were abducted, tortured, and disappeared, a group of women forged the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and changed Argentine politics forever...read more

When the Argentinian dictatorship used kidnapping to stifle all opposition, mothers of victims banded together in protest of state terrorism

Sets forth the report which documents the fate of thousands of people abducted and killed under the military regime

Sets forth the report which documents the fate of thousands of people abducted and killed under the military regime