Table of Contents

Introduction—Fifteen Years Later: Peace at Last -- Prologue: Recollections and Reflections—Fifteen Years in El Salvador -- The Roots of Revolution, 1524–1960 -- Challenges to Power, 1960–1980 -- The Church -- The Revolutionaries -- Descent into Anarchy, 1980–1982 -- High-Intensity Politics and Low-Intensity Conflict, 1982–1984 -- Electoral Authoritarianism and the Revolutionary Challenge, 1984–1989 -- The Road to Peace, 1989–1994 -- Epilogue: The Electronic Tamale

About the Author

Tommie Sue Montgomery has taught at Dickinson College, Agnes Scott College, and Emory University. She is currently a senior research associate with the North-South centre at the University of Miami.