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In from the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War

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Description for In from the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War Paperback.
Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have proceeded in rather conventional channels, focusing on U.S. policy objectives and high-profile leaders (Fidel Castro) and events (the Cuban Missile Crisis) and drawing largely on U.S. government sources. Moreover, only rarely have U.S. foreign relations scholars engaged productively with Latin American historians who analyze how the international conflict transformed the region's political, social, and cultural life. Representing a collaboration among eleven North ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822341215
SKU
V9780822341215
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About Joseph
Gilbert M. Joseph is Farnam Professor of History and International Studies at Yale University. He is the editor of Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North and a coeditor of The Mexico Reader; Fragments of a Golden Age; Crime and Punishment in Latin America; Close Encounters of Empire; and Everyday Forms of State Formation, all also ... Read more

Reviews for In from the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War
“This ambitious and worthy enterprise builds upon the scholarship of recent years that has articulated new perspectives on the Latin American Cold War.” - Arthur Schmidt, A Contracorriente “In From the Cold brings new insights on the different ways that the superpowers’ rivalries shaped politics and culture in Latin America. A truly collaborate and interdisciplinary project by eleven U. S. ... Read more

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