Tag Archives: Chile

Book Review: The Chile Reader

Posted on August 3, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics, edited by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Thomas Miller Klubock, Nara B. Milanich, and Peter Winn The history of Chile is deeply interesting, as is its culture. Unfortunately, this book is a poor example of how … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Story Of A Death Foretold

Posted on July 9, 2024 by nathanalbright

Story Of A Death Foretold: The Coup Against Salvador Allende, September 11, 1973, by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera This book was terrible, but terrible in a way that I found deeply and unpleasantly familiar with. It should go without saying that I … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Patagonia (Moon)

Posted on July 5, 2024 by nathanalbright

Patagonia, Including The Falkland Islands (Moon), by Wayne Bernhardson One the one hand, it is impossible not to celebrate the sheer ambition of a book that seeks to encourage travel to a sprawling and sparsely inhabited region of South America … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Winter Garden

Posted on August 26, 2017 by nathanalbright

Winter Garden, by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O’Daily I am no stranger to reading poems [1], and this is the second book of the poet’s that I have read.  This particular book was posthumously published from a written manuscript … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Book Of Questions

Posted on August 26, 2017 by nathanalbright

The Book Of Questions, by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O’Daly As a fond reader of poetry [1], I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book.  To be sure, Pablo Neruda was a leftist Chilean poet, and this book … Continue reading →

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Non-Book Review: The Wars Of German Unification

Posted on October 14, 2015 by nathanalbright

The Wars Of German Unification, by Dennis Showalter Anytime I request a book from the Michigan War Studies Review [1], I am committing to a pretty ambitious review of a book. Each book review for this journal is intended to … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Lord Cochrane: Seaman, Radical, Liberator

Posted on May 27, 2015 by nathanalbright

Lord Cochrane: Seaman, Radical, Liberator: A Life Of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1775-1860, by Christopher Lloyd This is a book with a good purpose, and with some limitations (most notably its dependence on English-language sources), it manages … Continue reading →

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Stand Still, Look Pretty

Posted on December 2, 2014 by nathanalbright

For my capstone paper as a Norwich graduate student in military history [1], I wrote about the Prussianization of the Chilean Army. Although this may seem to be a very boring subject, one of the ways that Chile copied the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Nation Of Enemies

Posted on May 31, 2014 by nathanalbright

A Nation Of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet, by Pamela Constable and Arturo Valenzuela On the one hand, this is a book I would have liked to have read while I was writing my capstone paper for my Master’s of Military … Continue reading →

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There’s No Such Thing As A Good Coup

Posted on August 17, 2013 by nathanalbright

My interest in the legitimacy and stability of regimes foreign and domestic, a possibly fatal interest of mine, was probably established from a very young age. In fact, it may be dated to the first ever trip I took outside … Continue reading →

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