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Latin America in the era of the Cuban Revolution / Thomas C. Wright.
LIBRA F1414.2 .W75 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, Thomas C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence.
- History.
- Radicalism.
- Latin America--Politics and government--1948-1980.
- Latin America.
- Politics and government.
- Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959--Influence.
- Cuba.
- Radicalism--Latin America--History--20th century.
- Violence--Latin America--History--20th century.
- United States--Military policy.
- United States.
- Military policy.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 235 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.
- Summary:
- Examines the three-decade impact of the Cuban Revolution, from a major watershed in Latin American history to a marginalized Cuba.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Cuban Revolution and Latin America xi
- 1. Fidel Castro's Road to Power, 1952-1959 1
- 2. Cuba: The Making of a Revolution 21
- 3. Fidelismo and the Radicalization of Latin American Politics 39
- 4. U.S. Responses to Revolution 57
- 5. Rural Guerrilla Warfare 73
- 6. Urban Guerrilla Warfare 93
- 7. The Peruvian Military Revolution, 1968-1975 111
- 8. Chile under Allende: A Peaceful Road to Socialism? 129
- 9. The Antirevolutionary Military Regimes 149
- 10. The Nicaraguan Revolution 165
- 11. Transitions of the 1990s 187.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275967050
- 0275967069
- OCLC:
- 42921406
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