Yesterday's Soldiers(1st Edition) European Military Professionalism in South America, 1890-1940 by FrederickM. Nunn, Joyce S. Goldberg Hardcover, 365 Pages, Published 1983 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-3305-8, ISBN: 0-8032-3305-1
"Between 1890 and World War II, South America experienced the unsettling first stages of modernization. During this half-century of economic, political, and social change, the armies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru underwent a process of professionalization as European military missions transformed their officer corps into copies of French and German officialdom. In so doing, European officers inculcated their ideals and values, th ..."
Collisions With History(1st Edition) Latin American Ficiton & Social Science from El Boom to the New World Order (Ohio RIS Latin America Series) by FrederickM. Nunn Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2001 by Ohio University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89680-219-3, ISBN: 0-89680-219-1
"Latin American intellectuals have traditionally debated their region’s history, never with so much agreement as in the fiction, commentary, and scholarship of the late twentieth century. Collisions with History shows how “fictional histories” of discovery and conquest, independence and early nationhood, and the recent authoritarian past were purposeful revisionist collisions with received national versions. These collisions occurred onl ..."
"Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--Jose Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century Chilean and Spanish American culture, literature, and politics. Recuerdos Literarios (or Literary Memoirs) is his masterpiece, encompassing the candid memories of a tireless ac ..."
The Time of the Generals Latin American Professional Militarism in World Perspective by FrederickM. Nunn Hardcover, 340 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-3334-8, ISBN: 0-8032-3334-5
"The quarter century from 1964 to 1989 was the "time of the generals," the most clearly defined era of military rule and influence in the history of Latin America. The effects of this rule were most evident in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Chile, where French- and German-style military professionalism developed into professional militarism. Frederick M. Nunn shows that the mentality of Latin American generals is typical of a worldwide mil ..."
"Jose Victorino Lastarria was of the first rank of Chilean and Spanish American intellectual and political figures of the nineteenth century. Statesman, novelist, scholar, activist, and a leading figure of Chile's Generation of 1842, a significant intellectual movement of the last century so named for the founding of the National University, he was at the center of all the intellectual struggles of his times. Recuerdos Literarios, or Li ..."
The military in Chilean history(1st Edition) Essays on civil-military relations, 1810-1973 by FrederickM. Nunn Hardcover, 343 Pages, Published 1976 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-0364-6, ISBN: 0-8263-0364-1
"Political history. Chilean military often served as dictators. Chile. Latin America. South America. Sociology. Key academic text on this topic."