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  • The Fate of the Americas

    The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War

    by Renata Keller ...
    Series series InterConnections: The Global Twentieth Century
    Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba as the central staging ground—a standard account that obscures the shock waves that reverberated throughout ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Mexico's Cold War

    Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution

    by Renata Keller ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
    This book is a history of the Cold War in Mexico, and Mexico in the Cold War. Renata Keller draws on declassified Mexican and US intelligence sources and Cuban diplomatic records to challenge earlier interpretations that depicted Mexico as a peaceful haven and a weak neighbor forced to submit to US pressure. Mexico did in fact suffer from the political and social turbulence that characterized the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    The Fate of the Americas

    The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War (InterConnections: The Global Twentieth Century)

    by Renata Keller ...
    Narrated by Reina Mystique ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 21 min

    Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba as the central staging ground—a standard account that obscures the shock waves that reverberated throughout ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Century of Revolution

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

    by Emily S. Rosenberg, Friedrich Katz, Jocelyn Olcott ...
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    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

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  • Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas

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    This is a short history of the age of exploration and the conquest of the Americas told through the experience of Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar who fervently defended the American Indians, and the single most important figure of the period after Columbus.Explores the period known as the Encounter, which was characterized by intensive conflict between Europeans and the people of the ... Read more

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    Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

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  • State Terrorism in Latin America

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  • Beyond Civil Society

    Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America

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