In from the cold : Latin America's new encounter with the Cold War / edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joseph, G. M. (Gilbert Michael), 1947-

Spenser, Daniela.

Series:

American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin America--History--20th century.

Latin America.

History.

Cold War--Influence.

Cold War.

Physical Description:

ix, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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) and drawing largely on U.S. government sources. Moreover, only rarely have U.S. foreign relations scholars engaged productively with Latin American historians to 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 away from the bipolar conflict, the preoccupation of much so-called new Cold War history, in order to showcase research, discussion, and an array of new archival and oral sources centering on the grass roots, where conflicts actually brewed. The contributors examine international and everyday contests over political power and cultural representation, concentrating on communities and groups above ground 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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-425) and index.

ISBN:

9780822341024

0822341026

9780822341215

0822341212

OCLC:

159919399