Description: Further DetailsTitle: Paper CadaversCondition: NewSubtitle: The Archives of Dictatorship in GuatemalaISBN-10: 0822356023EAN: 9780822356028ISBN: 9780822356028Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/21/2014Description: In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960–1996), silence and impunity reigned. That is, until 2005, when human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of the country's National Police, which, at 75 million pages, proved to be the largest trove of secret state records ever found in Latin America. The unearthing of the archives renewed fierce debates about history, memory, and justice. In Paper Cadavers, Weld explores Guatemala's struggles to manage this avalanche of evidence of past war crimes, providing a firsthand look at how postwar justice activists worked to reconfigure terror archives into implements of social change. Tracing the history of the police files as they were transformed from weapons of counterinsurgency into tools for post-conflict reckoning, Weld sheds light on the country's fraught transition from war to an uneasy peace, reflecting on how societies forget and remember political violence.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 481gAuthor: Kirsten WeldGenre: HistoryBook Series: American Encounters/Global InteractionsTopic: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Paper Cadavers
Title: Paper Cadavers
Subtitle: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
ISBN-10: 0822356023
EAN: 9780822356028
ISBN: 9780822356028
Release Date: 03/21/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Paper Cadavers : the Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Human Rights, International Relations / General, Library & Information Science / Archives & Special Libraries, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Latin America / Central America
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Author: Kirsten Weld
Subject Area: Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Length: 9 in
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions Ser.
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
