{"id":501,"date":"2017-06-11T06:58:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T11:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/?p=501"},"modified":"2017-06-11T06:58:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T11:58:14","slug":"twentieth-century-latin-american-revolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/2017\/06\/11\/twentieth-century-latin-american-revolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/L\/14\/422\/9781442265868.jpg\" alt=\"Latin American Revolutions\" width=\"315\" height=\"472\" \/>Professor of History Marc Becker has published a textbook <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781442265868\/Twentieth-Century-Latin-American-Revolutions\">Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions<\/a><\/em> with the assistance of his students in his Latin American Revolutions classes from the Fall 2015 and Fall 2016 semesters. He wrote the book because Latin American Revolutions is a commonly taught course at Truman and elsewhere, but no synthetic text exists for the subject. The book is built around a series of <span id=\"ISBNSummary\">case studies: the 1910\u20131920 Mexican Revolution; the 1944\u20131954 Guatemalan Spring; the 1952\u20131964 MNR-led revolution in Bolivia; the Cuban Revolution that triumphed in 1959; the 1970\u20131973 Chilean path to socialism; the leftist Sandinistas in Nicaragua in power from 1979\u20131990; failed guerrilla movements in Colombia, El Salvador, and Peru; and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela after Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s election in 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of History Marc Becker has published a textbook Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions with the assistance of his students in his Latin American Revolutions classes from the Fall 2015 and Fall 2016 semesters. He wrote the book because Latin American Revolutions is a commonly taught course at Truman and elsewhere, but no synthetic text exists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}