Caribbean Revolutions - Cold War Armed Movements

A comprehensive history and comparative analysis of the most important Caribbean armed revolutionary movements during the Cold War era.

List of contents

1. Cuban revolutionaries and the Caribbean Basin: an introduction; 2. Armed revolutionary struggle in Guatemala; 3. Armed revolutionary struggle in El Salvador; 4. The armed movement that took power: the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua; 5. Armed revolutionary struggle in Colombia; 6. Armed organizations within the Puerto Rican revolutionary nationalist movement; 7. Armed revolutionary movements in comparative perspective.

About the author

Rachel A. May is Director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (ISLAC) at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Terror in the Countryside: Campesino Responses to Political Violence in Guatemala, 1954–1985 (2001). She is the co-editor and a contributor to (Un)Civil Societies: Human Rights and Democratic Transitions in Eastern Europe and Latin America (2007), and La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence (2014).Alejandro Schneider is Professor of History at both the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of La Plata (Argentina). He is a labor historian who has worked on the history of armed and social movements in Latin America, and he is the author or editor of fourteen books on Argentine and Latin American history.Roberto González Arana is Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Latin America and the Caribbean Studies at the University of the North (Uninorte) in Barranquilla, Colombia. His many publications include Dictaduras en el Caribe (2018) and Sociedades en conflicto: movimientos sociales en América Latina (2016).

Summary

This book provides a comparative, comprehensive history and analysis of five case studies of armed revolutionary movements in the Caribbean Basin between 1959 and the 1990s, paying particular attention to the regional impact of the Cuban Revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Gonzalez Arana, Roberto (Universidad del Norte Gonzalez Arana, Roberto (Universidad Nacional de la Plata Argentina) Gonzalez Arana, Roberto González Arana, Rachel A. May, Rachel A. (University of South Florida) May, Rachel A. (University of South Florida) Schne May, May Rachel A., Alejandro Schneider, Alejandro (Universidad Nacional de La Plata Schneider, Alejandro (University of South Florida) Schneider
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781108440905
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44090-5
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Caribbean islands, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)