Latin America’s Cold War / / Hal Brands.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Brands, Hal,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called “long peace” afforded the world’s superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal Brands sets out to explain what exactly happ...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Convergent Conflicts
• 2 Intervention and the Limits of Power
• 3 From Crisis to Crisis
• 4 The Third World War
• 5 The Latin American Diplomatic Challenge
• 6 The Revolution in Context
• 7 Maelstrom
• 8 The End of History?
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Archives and Other Sources
• Acknowledgments
• Index