In from the cold : Latin America's new encounter with the Cold War / edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser.
Joseph, G. M. (Gilbert Michael), 1947-; Spenser, Daniela.
2008
F1414.2 .I53 2008 (Mapit)
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Title In from the cold : Latin America's new encounter with the Cold War / edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser.
ISBN 9780822341215 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822341212 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822341024 (alk. paper)
0822341026 (alk. paper)
Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description ix, 439 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number F1414.2 .I53 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 980.03/3
Summary 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), 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 American, Latin American, and European historians, anthropologists, and political scientists, this volume attempts to facilitate such a cross-fertilization. In the process, "In From the Cold" shifts the focus of attention away from the bipolar conflict, the preoccupation of much of the so-called new Cold War history, in order to showcase research, discussion, and an array of new archival and oral sources centering on the grassroots, where conflicts actually brewed. The collection's contributors examine international and everyday contests over political power and cultural representation, focusing on communities and groups above and underground; on state houses and diplomatic board rooms manned by Latin American and international governing elites; on the relations among states regionally; and, less frequently, on the dynamics between the two great superpowers themselves. In addition to charting new directions for research on the Latin American Cold War, "In From the Cold" seeks to contribute more generally to an understanding of the conflict in the global south.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Joseph, G. M. (Gilbert Michael), 1947-
Spenser, Daniela.
Series American encounters/global interactions.
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What we now know and should know : bringing Latin America more meaningfully into Cold War studies / Gilbert M. Joseph
Recovering the memory of the Cold War : forensic history and Latin America / Thomas S. Blanton
The Caribbean crisis : catalyst for Soviet projection in Latin America / Daniela Spenser
The view from Havana : lessons from Cuba's African journey, 1959-1976 / Piero Gleijeses
Transnationalizing the Dirty War : Argentina in Central America / Ariel C. Armony
Producing the Cold War in Mexico : the public limits of covert communications / Seth Fein
¡Cuba sí, Yanquis no! The sacking of the Instituto Cultural México/Norteamericano in Morelia, Michoacán, 1961 / Eric Zolov
Miracle on ice : industrial workers and the promise of Americanization in Cold War Mexico / Steven J. Bachelor
Chicano Cold Warriors : César Chávez, Mexican American politics, and California farmworkers / Stephen Pitti
Birth control pills and Molotov cocktails : reading sex and revolution in 1968 Brazil / Victoria Langland
Rural markets, revolutionary souls, and rebellious women in Cold War Guatemala / Carlota McAllister
Standing conventional Cold War history on its head / Daniela Spenser.

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