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Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America

Miguel Angel Centeno · Pennsylvania State University Press · 2002

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Book
Author
Miguel Angel Centeno
Identifier
DOI 10.5325/j.ctv14gphb8
Accessed
2026-09-01
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ISBN 9780271023069 (paperback).

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TheoryScholars of other regions argue that the bellicist model travels poorly: Herbst argued that European-derived theories fail to explain state creation in Africa, where power and space interacted very differently, and Centeno found that in relatively peaceful Latin America war destroyed institutions and confirmed internal divisions rather than building nation-states.