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The Carrera Revolt and 'Hybrid Warfare' in Nineteenth-Century Central America

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Authors:
  1. Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo

    1. City University of New York , Bayside, USA

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  • Provides a new perspective on the Rafael Carrera Revolt of 1837

  • Illustrates Carrera's distinct approach to warfare that combined guerrilla tactics with conventional operations

  • Argues that this 'hybrid warfare' enabled Carrera to establish control over Guatemala

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    • Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo
    Pages 1-10

  3. Defining Guerrilla Warfare

    • Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo
    Pages 11-45

  4. Background to the Carrera Uprising

    • Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo
    Pages 47-75

  5. From Popular Insurrection to Full-Scale War

    • Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo
    Pages 77-98

  6. Conclusion

    • Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo
    Pages 99-104

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 105-107
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About this book

This book provides a novel analysis of the military campaign of Rafael Carrera during the popular insurrection of 1837-1840 in Guatemala. Over the course of three years Carrera, a semi-literate farmer, and his army of peasants established Conservative control over Guatemala and accelerated the disintegration of the Central American Federation. Although Carrera’s rise has been analyzed from a political and socio-economic perspective, the present work shows that Carrera’s vertiginous success is the product of a peculiar and misunderstood approach to warfare that combines guerrilla recruiting practices and rural insurgency logistics with conventional combat tactics and operations. Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo argues that Carrera’s hybrid warfare was made possible because of the conditions created by the militarization of Latin American society following the administrative reforms of the Bourbon monarchy in the late eighteenth century. The concept of hybrid warfare is offered as an alternative model to understand the success of other insurgencies.

Authors and Affiliations

  • City University of New York , Bayside, USA

    Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo

About the author

Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo is Associate Professor at Queensborough Community College (City University of New York), USA. He is also the co-author of The Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe: A Revision.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Carrera Revolt and 'Hybrid Warfare' in Nineteenth-Century Central America

  • Authors: Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58341-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58340-2Published: 28 July 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86382-5Published: 12 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58341-9Published: 18 July 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 107

  • Topics: History of Military, History of the Americas, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Modern Europe, Political History

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