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In from the cold : Latin America's new encounter with the Cold War / edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- American encounters/global interactions.
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cold War--Influence.
- Cold War.
- Latin America--History--20th century.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (451 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reexamines the Cold War in Latin America by shifting the focus away from superpower decision-making and exploring the many ways in which Latin American leaders and ordinary people used, manipulated, shaped, and were victimized by the Cold War.
- 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 si, Yanquis no! The sacking of the Instituto Cultural Mexico/Norteamericano in Morelia, Michoacan, 1961 / Eric Zolov
- Miracle on ice : industrial workers and the promise of Americanization in Cold War Mexico / Steven J. Bachelor
- Chicano Cold Warriors : Cesar Chavez, 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-425) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613035684
- 9780822341024
- 0822341026
- 9781283035682
- 1283035685
- OCLC:
- 271166231
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