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Latin America´s Cold War
Hal Brands
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Description for Latin America´s Cold War
Paperback. For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called "long peace" afforded the world's superpowers by their nuclear standoff. Taking an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, this book explains what exactly happened in Latin America during the Cold War, and why it was so traumatic. Num Pages: 408 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464.
For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called long peace afforded the world's superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal Brands sets out to explain what exactly happened in Latin America during the Cold War, and why it was so traumatic. Tracing the tumultuous course of regional affairs from the late 1940s through the early 1990s, Latin America's Cold War delves into the myriad crises and turning points of the period-the Cuban ... Read more
For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called long peace afforded the world's superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal Brands sets out to explain what exactly happened in Latin America during the Cold War, and why it was so traumatic. Tracing the tumultuous course of regional affairs from the late 1940s through the early 1990s, Latin America's Cold War delves into the myriad crises and turning points of the period-the Cuban ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674064270
SKU
V9780674064270
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About Hal Brands
Hal Brands is Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Reviews for Latin America´s Cold War
Brands takes aim at those mainstream historians writing on Western Hemispheric relations who have portrayed the United States as an overwhelmingly powerful hegemon whose destructive interventions are responsible for the region's sufferings. Delving into Latin American archives, Brands counters that Latin Americans have been active participants in their own history
in both their domestic politics and international diplomacy. During the Cold ... Read more
in both their domestic politics and international diplomacy. During the Cold ... Read more