Building blocks for a new paradigm? State-making, society and violence in twentieth-century Mexico

Abstract

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 – [Tiempo suspendido]. Una historia de la desaparición forzada en México, 1940-1980, by Camilo Vicente Ovalle, Bonilla Artigas Editores, 2019.