Argentina&39s Missing Bones Revisiting the History of the Dirty War [Paperback]

Argentina’s Missing Bonesis the first comprehensive English-language work of historical scholarship on the 1976–83 military dictatorship and Argentina’s notorious experience with state terrorism during the so-called dirty war. It examines this history in a single but crucial place: Córdoba, Argentina’s second largest city. A site of thunderous working-class and student protest prior to the dictatorship, it later became a place where state terrorism was particularly cruel. Considering the legacy of this violent period, James P. Brennan examines the role of the state in constructing a public memory of the violence and in holding those responsible accountable through the most extensive trials for crimes against humanity to take place anywhere in Latin America.

James P. Brennan is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, where he teaches modern Latin American history.  

“This book is impressive and useful, a clarifying study of the origins, course, and legacies of state terror in the city of Córdoba, a center of industrial upheaval and student activism in the 1960s and 1970s. Building on deep research into these painful years, James Brennan produces what is likely the first integrated account of social protest, state terror, and struggles for justice and memory afterwards.”—Mark A. Healey, author ofThe Ruins of the New Argentina: Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan after the 1944 Earthquake