Latin America''s Democratic Crusade - The Transnational Struggle Against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s

By emphasizing Latin American reformers' decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm and recasts the region's political evolution

About the author

Allen Wells is the Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History, emeritus, at Bowdoin College. The author or coauthor of six previous books, he has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He lives in Bath, ME.

Summary

By emphasizing Latin American reformers’ decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm and recasts the region’s political evolution

Product details

• Authors: Allen Wells, Wells Allen
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9780300264401
• ISBN: 978-0-300-26440-1
• No. of pages: 736
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, HISTORY / Latin America / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political structures: democracy, General and world history, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General