Latin America's democratic crusade : the transnational struggle against dictatorship, 1920s-1960s / Allen Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Allen, 1951- author.

Series:

Yale scholarship online.

Yale scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Latin America--History--20th century.

Democracy.

Dictatorship--Latin America--History--20th century.

Dictatorship.

Latin America--Politics and government--20th century.

Latin America.

Latin America--Foreign relations--United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Latin America.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (732 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2024.

Summary:

By emphasizing Latin American reformers' decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm and recasts the region's political evolution.

Contents:

Introduction

PART I: MOBILIZING AGAINST DICTATORSHIP

1. The Poet and the Rebel

2. The Obligation to Think

3. The Generation of 1928

4. Polestar

5. Mexican Impasse

6. Something New in American History

7. Tony Guiteras

PART II: DEMOCRATIC EFFERVESCENCE AND AUTHORITARIAN RETRENCHMENT

8. Your Words Inspired

9. Give the Canary Birdseed and Listen to It Sing

10. In Defense of Democracy

11. We Are Fighting in Difficult Circumstances

12. La Lucha sin Fin (The Never-Ending Struggle)

13. Latin America's Representative in the U.S. Congress

14. The Hour of the Sword No Longer Tolls

15. Cuban Conundrum

Conclusion

Dramatis Personae

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 30, 2023).

ISBN:

0-300-27465-3

OCLC:

1396252564