Political Cultures of Opposition:Exploring Idioms, Ideologies, and Revolutionary Agency in the Case of Nicaragua

Critical Sociology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 335-370

  Reed, Jean Pierre ^a   Foran, John ^b  

^a Independent Scholar   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1177/08969205020280030401     Document Type: Article

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