Marshall professor authors “The History of El Salvador”

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HUNTINGTON — Dr. Christopher M. White, an assistant professor of Latin American history at Marshall University, has written a book titled “The History of El Salvador.” It was published as part of the Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series.More than 40 volumes of this series, which was launched in 1998, have been published.

The series is intended to provide students and interested lay people with up-to-date, concise and analytical histories of many of the nations of the contemporary world.For each nation, an author who was recognized as a specialist in the history of that nation was selected to write the book, according to series editors Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling.At Marshall, White teaches courses on Latin America, the developing world, and U.S. foreign relations. He also is the author of “Creating a Third World: Mexico, Cuba, and the United States during the Castro Era,” published in 2007.“

I jumped at the chance to write the book because I have had a special place in my heart for the Salvadoran people ever since I made friends with Salvadoran refugees 17 years ago,” White said.

“This is primarily a book for American students because, among other reasons, the U.S. government supplied more military aid to the Salvadoran military than to any other Latin American military until then (1980s), and the result was at least 70,000 murdered civilians.”