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  • Neither Peace nor Freedom

    The Cultural Cold War in Latin America

    by Patrick Iber ...
    During the Cold War, left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations. Their competing visions of social democracy and their pursuit of justice, peace, and freedom led them to organizations sponsored by the governments of the Cold War powers: the Soviet-backed World Peace Council, the U.S.-supported Congress for ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Neither Peace nor Freedom

    The Cultural Cold War in Latin America

    by Patrick Iber ...
    During the Cold War, left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations. Their competing visions of social democracy and their pursuit of justice, peace, and freedom led them to organizations sponsored by the governments of the Cold War powers: the Soviet-backed World Peace Council, the U.S.-supported Congress for ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

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  • Companero

    The Life and Death of Che Guevara

    by Jorge G. Castañeda ...
    By the time he was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, where his body was displayed like a deposed Christ, Ernesto "Che" Guevara had become a synonym for revolution everywhere from Cuba to the barricades of Paris. This extraordinary biography peels aside the veil of the Guevara legend to reveal the charismatic, restless man behind it.Drawing on archival materials from three continents and on ... Read more

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  • A History of the Cuban Revolution

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    A History of the Cuban Revolution presents a concise socio-historical account of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, an event that continues to spark debate 50 years later.Balances a comprehensive overview of the political and economic events of the revolution with a look at the revolution’s social impactProvides a lively, on-the-ground look at the lives of ordinary peopleFeatures both U.S. and Cuban ... Read more

    $86.00 USD

  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.Mass rallies and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

    A Critical Assessment

    by Samuel Farber ...
    "Frequent insights, stimulating historical comparisons, and command of the data relating to Cuba's economic and social performance." — Foreign AffairsUncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. In this book, Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Story of a Death Foretold

    The Coup Against Salvador Allende, September 11, 1973

    by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera ...
    On the fortieth anniversary of revolution and rebellion in Chile, a searching history of the rise and fall of the world's first and only democratically elected Marxist president.On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile was deposed in a violent coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The coup had been in the works for months, even years. Shortly after giving a farewell speech to his ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Anarchism in Latin America

    by Ángel J. Cappelletti ...
    Translated by Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez ...
    The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is the first book-length regional history ever published in English. ... Read more

    $15.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Marxism of Che Guevara

    Philosophy, Economics, Revolutionary Warfare

    by Michael Löwy ...
    "Excellent. . . .The book gives one a clear understanding of the relationship of Guevara's thought to traditional Russian and Marxist philosophy." — Choice ReviewsIn this seminal exploration of Che Guevara's contributions to Marxist thinking, Michael Löwy traces Che's ideas about Marxism both as they related to Latin America and to more general philosophical, political, and economic issues. Now ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Century of Revolution

    Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War

    by Emily S. Rosenberg, Friedrich Katz, Jocelyn Olcott ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Sandinista

    Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution

    by Matilde Zimmermann ...
    “A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaragua—or in the overall issue of social change.”—Margaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITEDSandinista is the first English-language biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, the legendary leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua (the FSLN) and the most important and influential figure of the post–1959 ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Mañana es San Perón

    A Cultural History of Perón's Argentina

    by Mariano Ben Plotkin ...
    The regime of Juan Perón is one of the most studied topics of Argentina's contemporary history. This new book—an English translation of a highly popular, critically acclaimed Spanish language edition—provides a new perspective on the intriguing Argentinian leader. Mariano Plotkin's cultural approach makes Perón's popularity understandable because it goes beyond Perón's charismatic appeal and ... Read more

    $45.89 USD