Joseph / Spenser / Rosenberg In from the Cold

Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9066-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 450 Seiten

Reihe: American encounters/global interactions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Spenser, Daniela

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

I. New Approaches, Debates, and Sources

What We Now Know and Should Know: Bringing Latin America More Meaningfully into Cold War Studies / Gilbert M. Joseph 3

Recovering the Memory of the Cold War: Forensic History and Latin America / Thomas S. Blanton 47

II. Latin America between the Superpowers: International Realpolitik, the Ideology of the State, and the “Latin Americanization” of the Conflict

The Caribbean Crisis: Catalyst for Soviet Projection in Latin America / Daniela Spenser 77

The View from Havana: Lessons from Cuba’s African Journey, 1959-1976 / Piero Gleijeses 112

Transnationalizing the Dirty War: Argentina in Central America / Ariel C. Armony 134

III. Everyday Contests over Culture and Representation in the Latin American Cold War

Producing the Cold War in Mexico: The Public Limits of Covert Communications / Seth Fein 171

Cuba si, Yanquis no: The Sacking of the Instituto Cultural Mexico-Norteamericano in Morelia, Michoacan, 1961 / Eric Zolov 214

Miracle on Ice: Industrial Workers and the Promise of Americanization in Cold War Mexico / Steven J. Bachelor 253

Chicano Cold Warriors: Cesar Chavez, Mexican American Politics, and California Farmworkers / Stephen Pitti 273

Birth Control Pills and Molotov Cocktails: Reading Sex and Revolution in 1968 Brazil / Victoria Langland 308

Rural Markets, Revolutionary Souls, and Rebellious Women in Cold War Guatemala / Carlota McAllister 350

IV. Final Reflections

Standing Conventional Cold War History on Its Head / Daniela Spenser 381

Selective Bibliography 397

Contributors 427

Index 429

Über Autor(innen)

Gilbert M. Joseph is Farnam Professor of History and International Studies at Yale University. He is the editor of Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North and a coeditor of The Mexico Reader; Fragments of a Golden Age; Crime and Punishment in Latin America; Close Encounters of Empire; and Everyday Forms of State Formation, all also published by Duke University Press.Daniela Spenser is Senior Research Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social in Mexico City. She is the author of The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s, also published by Duke University Press.