Paired Lives in Latin America's Cold War

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-51018-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 444 g

Reihe: Seminar Studies

Paired Lives in Latin America’s Cold War takes a biographical approach to teaching the history of the Cold War in Latin America and provides a unique overview to a period that is steeped in reform, revolution, and repression.

The chosen pairs from major countries represent the vast number of leaders, intellectuals, and “ordinary people” who all hoped for significant socioeconomic transformation of one kind or another. Such figures include presidents, revolutionary leaders, army generals, a founder of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, democracy and union activists from countries such as Guatemala, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Argentina, and Nicaragua. Primary documents such as speeches, interviews, memoirs, and diaries are used to emphasize individuals’ reflections on their experiences and understanding of the Cold War, such as Che Guevara’s diary which recounts his failed insurgency in Bolivia.

By including biographies with a large geographical scope from across the political spectrum, this study is a useful introduction for students with little prior knowledge of the Cold War in Latin America. Aided by a Chronology, Who’s Who, Glossary, and Guide to Further Reading, this volume is useful for all students who study the Cold War in Latin America.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kirkendall, Andrew J.

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chronology. Who's Who. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Rafael Trujillo and Rómulo Betancourt: Dictatorship or Democracy? 2. Evita Perón and Hebe de Bonafini: Populist Heroine and Human Rights Icon. 3. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara: Making Latin America Matter. 4. Lázaro Cárdenas and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz: The Institutional Revolutionary State in a Revolutionary Era. 5. Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet: A Peaceful Path to Socialism or a Violent Road Back to Capitalism?. 6. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff: Defying the Dictatorship. 7. Óscar Romero and Efraín Ríos Montt: Religion and the Cold War in Central America. 8. Omar Torrijos and Manuel Noriega: One Old Problem Resolved, Another New Problem Unresolvable. 9. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro and Daniel Ortega: Whose Revolution? Conclusion. Documents. Glossary. Further Reading. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew J. Kirkendall is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Hemispheric Alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America, Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy, and Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.