
Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land

The Emergence of Premodern States: New Perspectives on the Development of Complex Societies
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It was not just bloodlust and the urge for revenge which provided the motive for this mass slaughter: there was also money to be made. Informers were paid 2 rupees for every arrest, while the captors were allowed to keep “all money and gold found on the persons of mutineers captured.”
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
En los días que siguieron a la renuncia del Presidente Árbenz hubo cinco juntas militares, cada una de ellas más próxima a los Estados Unidos, gracias a las exigencias y estratagemas de que se valía el embajador Peurifoy, y cada una de ellas se parecía a la otra en que todas querían superar a la anterior persiguiendo, capturando, torturando y fusil
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The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
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