Historian Steve J. Stern Reveals Struggle in Chile During Dictatorship of General Pinochet March 22, 2007

Steve J. Stern will present "Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988" on March 22 at 3:30 p.m.

"Battling for Hearts and Minds" is the story of the struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Stern provides a narration of Chile's political history during this period. At the same time, he analyzes Chileans' conflicting interpretations of events as they unfolded. This is the second volume in the trilogy "MemoryThe third book will examine Chileans' efforts to achieve democracy while reckoning with Pinochet's legacy.

"'Battling for Hearts and Minds' is an extraordinary narrative and analysis of the ways conflictual interpretations and memories were framed and built in the Pinochet years," says Paul W. Drake, coeditor of "State and Society in Conflict: Comparative Perspectives on Andean Crises."

Stern is the Alberto Flores Galindo Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His books include "Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995," "The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico," "Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries," and "Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1998."


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