Latin America's Democratic Crusade

Latin America's Democratic Crusade
Author :
Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 732
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780300264401
ISBN-13 : 0300264402
Rating : 4/5 (402 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Latin America's Democratic Crusade by : Allen Wells

Download or read book Latin America's Democratic Crusade written by Allen Wells and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Scholars persist in framing the Cold War as a battle between left and right, one in which the Global South is cast as either witting or unwitting proxies of Washington and Moscow. What if the era is told from the perspective of the many who preferred reform to revolution? Scholars have routinely neglected, dismissed, or caricatured moderate politicians. In this book, Allen Wells argues that until the Cuban Revolution, the struggle was not between capitalism and communism--that was Washington's abiding preoccupation--but between democracy and dictatorship. Beginning in the 1920s, the fight against authoritarianism was contested on multiple fronts--political, ideological, and cultural--taking on the dimensions of a political crusade. Convinced that despots represented an existential threat, reformers declared that no civilian government was safe until the cancer of dictatorship was excised from the hemisphere. Dictators retaliated, often with deadly results, exporting strategies that had been honed at home to guarantee their political survival. Grafted onto this war without borders was a belated Cold War, with all its political convulsions, the aftershocks of which are still felt today.


Latin America's Democratic Crusade Related Books

Latin America's Democratic Crusade
Language: en
Pages: 732
Authors: Allen Wells
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

By emphasizing Latin American reformers' decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm
Area Handbook for the Dominican Republic
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Thomas E. Weil
Categories: Dominican Republic
Type: BOOK - Published: 1973 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Guide to the Hispanic American Historical Review, 1956-1975
Language: en
Pages: 442
Authors: Wilber A. Chaffee
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

State Department Security, 1963-65
Language: en
Pages: 2260
Authors: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
Categories: Governmental investigations
Type: BOOK - Published: 1965 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Investigates security clearance given William Wieland, his meetings with Fidel Castro and activities as a State Dept official both before and after Castro's tak
Red Heat
Language: en
Pages: 689
Authors: Alex von Tunzelmann
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-13 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, an