Using multinational sources, the book explores how Latin American leaders influenced US policy in the context of asymmetrical power relations.

Points to the Brazilian nation's strong expression of popular culture as a long term transcultural experience between cultural elites and popular voices.

"Latin America Confronts the United States offers a new perspective on US-Latin America relations. Drawing on research in six countries, the book examines how L

A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn’t step aside for the rising American superpower—with

For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called “long peace” afforded the world’s superpowers by their nuclear standoff. I