TY - BOOK AU - Sheinin,David ED - Project Muse. TI - Consent of the damned: ordinary Argentinians in the dirty war SN - 9780813042596 AV - F2849.2 .S49 2012 U1 - 982.06 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - Human rights KW - Argentina KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Political violence KW - National socialism KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Political persecution KW - Military policy KW - Politics and government KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: How unpopular was the Argentine dictatorship? -- Dictatorship, media, and message -- "A correct, hermeneutic reading": fantasies of a constitutional coup and the promotion of indigenous -- Rights -- The Frank War, the fabrication of an ongoing menace, and the Jews -- Democracy and the (re)shaping of human rights politics -- Finding a cynical center -- Epilogue: Saving Jorge Omar Merengo N2 - An examination of the way the Argentinian military dictatorship was able to commit human rights abuses because it was abetted by the willingness of Argentine civilians to either ignore or either assist their perpetration UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813042596/ ER -