Beyond the eagle's shadow : new histories of Latin America's cold war /

The dominant tradition in writing about U.S.-Latin American relations during the Cold War views the United States as all-powerful. That perspective, represented in the metaphor "talons of the eagle," continues to influence much scholarly work down to the present day. The goal of this colle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moreno, Julio, 1970- (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Garrard, Virginia, 1957- (Editor), Lawrence, Mark Atwood (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Coca-Cola, U.S. diplomacy, and the cold war in America's backyard / Julio E. Moreno
  • Military factionalism and the consolidation of power in 1960s Guatemala / Giovanni Batz
  • Season of storms : the United States and the Caribbean contest for a new political order, 1958-1961 / Aragorn Storm Miller
  • Counterrevolution in the Caribbean : the CIA and Cuban commandos in the 1960s / Jonathan C. Brown
  • Don Lázaro rises again : heated rhetoric, cold warfare, and the 1961 Latin American Peace Conference / Renata Keller
  • From ploughshares to politics : transformations in rural Brazil during the cold war and its aftermath / Seth Garfield
  • The Indian wing : Nicaraguan Indians, Native American activists, and U.S. foreign policy, 1979-1990 / James Jenkins
  • Doctors within borders : Cuban medical diplomacy to Sandinista Nicaragua, 1979-1990 / K. Cheasty Anderson
  • The other dirty war : cleaning up Buenos Aires during the last dictatorship, 1976-1983 / Jennifer T. Hoyt
  • "Restoring all things in Christ" : social Catholicism, urban workers, and the cold war in Guatemala / Bonar L. Hernández
  • The evolution of "narcoterrorism" : from the cold war to the war on drugs / Michelle Denise Reeves
  • Afterword : the paradox of Latin American cold war studies / Alan McPherson.