Latin America and the Global Cold War

"Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America. It uncovers a multitude of overlapping and sometimes conflicting iterations of Third Worldist movements in Latin America, and offers insights for better understanding the region's past, as well as its possible futures, challenging us to consider how the Global Cold War continues to inform Latin America's ongoing political struggles"--

About the author

Thomas C. Field Jr. is professor of social sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Stella Krepp is assistant professor of Iberian and Latin American history at Bern University.

Vanni Pettinà is associate professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas C Krepp Field
• Assisted by: Thomas C Field (Editor), Thomas C. Jr. Field (Editor), Stella Krepp (Editor), Vanni Pettinà (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2025
• EAN: 9781469684642
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-8464-2
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous