Bøker av William F. Sater

Analyzes the impact of European military institutions on Hispanic America in general and examines the putative "Prussianization" of the Chilean army in particular. This title focuses on Chile's attempt to import and assimilate foreign military methods, doctrine, and materiel.

1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. Employing the primary and secondary sources, William F. Sater offers the definitive analysis of the conflict's naval and military campaigns.

Traces the often stormy course of US-Chilean relations, covering not only policy decisions but also the overall political, cultural and economic developments that formed the context in which these policies unfolded.