Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope
Sonia Cardenas
256 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus.
Cloth Dec 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4197-6 | $59.95 | £39.00
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series
"Solidly researched and gracefully written, Sonia Cardenas's Human Rights in Latin America fills a significant gap. It is a deceptively easy read, with plenty of substance but packaged in an accessible and fluent prose--a combination we see all too infrequently. It will be warmly welcomed by both students and their professors in courses on Latin American politics and inter-American relations."--Lars Schoultz. William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Educators: to request an exam copy for course use consideration, click here.
Sonia Cardenas
256 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus.
Cloth Dec 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4197-6 | $59.95 | £39.00
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series
"Solidly researched and gracefully written, Sonia Cardenas's Human Rights in Latin America fills a significant gap. It is a deceptively easy read, with plenty of substance but packaged in an accessible and fluent prose--a combination we see all too infrequently. It will be warmly welcomed by both students and their professors in courses on Latin American politics and inter-American relations."--Lars Schoultz. William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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