Latin America Between The Second World War And The Cold War 1944 1948

Author : Leslie Bethell,Ian Roxborough
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521430321

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Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War by Leslie Bethell,Ian Roxborough Pdf

This volume aims to establish that the period between World War II and the beginning of the Cold War (1944-5 to 1947-8) represents an important conjuncture in the political and social history of Latin America in the twentieth century. The volume contains an Introduction and a Conclusion by the editors and case studies of eleven of the twenty Latin American republics. Despite differences of political regime and different levels of economic and social development there are striking similarities in the experiences of the majority of the Latin American republics in this period. For most of Latin America it can be divided into two phases. The first, coinciding with the Allied victory in the Second World War, was characterized by three distinct but interrelated phenomena: democratization; a shift to the Left, both Communist and non-Communist; and unprecedented labor militancy. In the second phase, coinciding with the onset of the Cold War and completed almost everywhere by 1948, labor was disciplined by the State and in many cases excluded from politics; communist parties suffered proscription and severe repression; reformist, "progressive" parties moved to the right; the democratic advance was for the most part contained, and in some cases reversed.

Author : Leslie Bethell,Ian Roxborough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Democracy
ISBN : OCLC:809734128

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Latin America Between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944-1948 by Leslie Bethell,Ian Roxborough Pdf

Author : Thomas C. Field Jr.,Stella Krepp,Vanni Pettinà
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469655703

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Latin America and the Global Cold War by Thomas C. Field Jr.,Stella Krepp,Vanni Pettinà Pdf

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. Contributors: Miguel Serra Coelho, Thomas C. Field Jr., Sarah Foss, Michelle Getchell, Eric Gettig, Alan McPherson, Stella Krepp, Eline van Ommen, Eugenia Palieraki, Vanni Pettina, Tobias Rupprecht, David M. K. Sheinin, Christy Thornton, Miriam Elizabeth Villanueva, and Odd Arne Westad.

Author : Robert Arthur Humphreys,University of London. Institute of Latin American Studies
Publisher : London : Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London [by] Athlone ; [Atlantic Highlands], N.J. : Distributor for U.S.A., Humanities Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017247192

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Latin America and the Second World War: 1939-1942 by Robert Arthur Humphreys,University of London. Institute of Latin American Studies Pdf

Kapitler: Latin America on the Eve of the Second World War; The Era of Neutrality; From Neutrality to War; South of the Equator; Unity or Unanimity.

Author : David Rock
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520368149

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Latin America in the 1940s by David Rock Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Author : Andrew N. Buchanan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350240223

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From World War to Postwar by Andrew N. Buchanan Pdf

Offering a global account of the 'long' World War II, this book challenges conventional narratives that picture a clearly defined war period (1939-1945) followed by a distinct postwar era dominated by the encroaching cold war. Arguing instead that while some aspects of the war did end abruptly in 1945, in many corners of the world 'war' bled directly and raggedly into the 'postwar' such as Allied Occupation in Italy, the civil war in Greece, the rise of US hegemony and struggles for national liberation in India. From World War to Postwar shows how critical developments in the latter half of the 20th century were a direct result of the Second World War, and reconceptualizes the conflict as an intersecting series of regional wars as well as an overarching world war. Offering new ways to think about how 'the war' shaped the second half of the 20th century, this book reaches into those regions often overlooked in the study of WWII. Showing how wartime relations between the US and Latin America played a crucial role in the worldwide development of US hegemony, how WWII accelerated the retreat from Empire in Sub-Saharan Africa and how it encouraged the growth of anti-colonialism in regions around the world, Buchanan offers a truly global account of the outcomes of the largest conflict in human history, and challenges the temporal boundaries in which we view it.

Author : Peter Kingstone,Deborah J. Yashar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135280307

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Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics by Peter Kingstone,Deborah J. Yashar Pdf

Latin America has been one of the critical areas in the study of comparative politics. The region’s experiments with installing and deepening democracy and promoting alternative modes of economic development have generated intriguing and enduring empirical puzzles. In turn, Latin America’s challenges continue to spawn original and vital work on central questions in comparative politics: about the origins of democracy; about the relationship between state and society; about the nature of citizenship; about the balance between state and market. The richness and diversity of the study of Latin American politics makes it hard to stay abreast of the developments in the many sub-literatures of the field. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics offers an intellectually rigorous overview of the state of the field and a thoughtful guide to the direction of future scholarship. Kingstone and Yashar bring together the leading figures in the study of Latin America to present extensive empirical coverage, new original research, and a cutting-edge examination of the central areas of inquiry in the region.

Author : Marc Becker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822372783

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The FBI in Latin America by Marc Becker Pdf

During the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin America. Through a program called the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), 700 agents were assigned to combat Nazi influence in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. The SIS’s mission, however, extended beyond countries with significant German populations or Nazi spy rings. As evidence of the SIS’s overreach, forty-five agents were dispatched to Ecuador, a country without any German espionage networks. Furthermore, by 1943, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover shifted the SIS’s focus from Nazism to communism. Marc Becker interrogates a trove of FBI documents from its Ecuador mission to uncover the history and purpose of the SIS’s intervention in Latin America and for the light they shed on leftist organizing efforts in Latin America. Ultimately, the FBI’s activities reveal the sustained nature of US imperial ambitions in the Americas.

Author : Vanni Pettinà
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469669779

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A Compact History of Latin America's Cold War by Vanni Pettinà Pdf

While not commonly centered in the Cold War story, Latin America was intensely affected by that historic conflict. In this book, available for the first time in English, Vanni Pettina makes sense of the region's diverse, complex political experiences of the Cold War era. Cross-fertilized by Latin American and Anglophone historiography, his account shifts from an overemphasis on U.S. interventions toward a comprehensive Latin American perspective. Connecting Cold War events to the region's political polarizations, revolutionary mobilizations, draconian state repression, and brutal violence in almost every sphere, Pettina demonstrates that Latin America's Cold War was rarely cold. In the midst of the tumult, some countries showed resilience and capacity to bend the disruptive dynamics to their advantage. Mexico, for example, drew on a mix of nationalism and anticommunism, aided by the United States, to achieve strong economic growth and political stability. Cuba, in contrast, used Soviet protection to shield its revolution from the United States and to strengthen its capacity to project power in Latin America and beyond. Interweaving global and local developments along an insightful analytical frame, Pettina reveals the distinct consequences of the Cold War in the Western Hemisphere.

Author : D. Carter,R. Clifton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403913852

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War and Cold War in American Foreign Policy, 1942-62 by D. Carter,R. Clifton Pdf

Making use of newly-researched archival material, this collection of original essays on wartime and postwar US foreign policy re-evaluates well-known crises and documents many less familiar aspects of the nation's mid-twentieth century conflicts. Leading diplomatic historians address familiar subjects from new angles. They offer new evidence about the risks run and the costs incurred in the prosecution of the Cold War, from Korea to the Caribbean. And they provide up-to-date accounting of mid-twentieth century American diplomacy's global purposes and consequences.

Author : David Rock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520328099

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Latin America in the 1940s by David Rock Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Author : Robert Cherny,William Issel,Kiernan Walsh Taylor
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813555058

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American Labor and the Cold War by Robert Cherny,William Issel,Kiernan Walsh Taylor Pdf

The American labor movement seemed poised on the threshold of unparalleled success at the beginning of the post-World War II era. Fourteen million strong in 1946, unions represented thirty five percent of non-agricultural workers. Why then did the gains made between the 1930s and the end of the war produce so few results by the 1960s? This collection addresses the history of labor in the postwar years by exploring the impact of the global contest between the United States and the Soviet Union on American workers and labor unions. The essays focus on the actual behavior of Americans in their diverse workplaces and communities during the Cold War. Where previous scholarship on labor and the Cold War has overemphasized the importance of the Communist Party, the automobile industry, and Hollywood, this book focuses on politically moderate, conservative workers and union leaders, the medium-sized cities that housed the majority of the population, and the Roman Catholic Church. These are all original essays that draw upon extensive archival research and some upon oral history sources.

Author : Artemy M. Kalinovsky,Craig Daigle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134700653

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The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War by Artemy M. Kalinovsky,Craig Daigle Pdf

This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of current scholarship on the Cold War, with essays from many leading scholars. The field of Cold War history has consistently been one of the most vibrant in the field of international studies. Recent scholarship has added to our understanding of familiar Cold War events, such as the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis and superpower détente, and shed new light on the importance of ideology, race, modernization, and transnational movements. The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War draws on the wealth of new Cold War scholarship, bringing together essays on a diverse range of topics such as geopolitics, military power and technology and strategy. The chapters also address the importance of non-state actors, such as scientists, human rights activists and the Catholic Church, and examine the importance of development, foreign aid and overseas assistance. The volume is organised into nine parts: Part I: The Early Cold War Part II: Cracks in the Bloc Part III: Decolonization, Imperialism and its Consequences Part IV: The Cold War in the Third World Part V: The Era of Detente Part VI: Human Rights and Non-State Actors Part VII: Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Intelligence Part VIII: Psychological Warfare, Propaganda and Cold War Culture Part IX: The End of the Cold War This new Handbook will be of great interest to all students of Cold War history, international history, foreign policy, security studies and IR in general.

Author : Robert Service
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330516365

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Comrades by Robert Service Pdf

Almost two decades have passed since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Robert Service, one of our finest historians of modern Russia, sets out to examine the history of communism throughout the world. His uncomfortable conclusion - and an important message for the twenty-first century – is that although communism in its original form is now dead or dying, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling, compellingly written and brilliantly argued, this is a superb work of history and one that demands to be read. ‘Bears all the hallmarks of a classic work of historical literature ... the true international legacy of communism [is] analysed to magisterial effect in this exhilarating work’ Hwyel Williams New Statesman ‘One of the best-ever studies of the subject ... a remarkable accomplishment’ Economist ‘An outstanding book, written with grace and style’ Daily Telegraph ‘[A] brilliantly distilled world history of communism ... Confronted by Service's amazing array of evidence to show that communism could only ever have flourished under conditions of extreme and all-pervasive oppression, only the determinedly softheaded would try to argue with him’ Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

Author : Jessica Stites Mor
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299291136

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Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America by Jessica Stites Mor Pdf

With the end of the global Cold War, the struggle for human rights has emerged as one of the most controversial forces of change in Latin America. Many observers seek the foundations of that movement in notions of rights and models of democratic institutions that originated in the global North. Challenging that view, this volume argues that Latin American community organizers, intellectuals, novelists, priests, students, artists, urban pobladores, refugees, migrants, and common people have contributed significantly to new visions of political community and participatory democracy. These local actors built an alternative transnational solidarity from below with significant participation of the socially excluded and activists in the global South. Edited by Jessica Stites Mor, this book offers fine-grained case studies that show how Latin America’s re-emerging Left transformed the struggles against dictatorship and repression of the Cold War into the language of anti-colonialism, socioeconomic rights, and identity.