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

Abstract

Latin America and the Global Cold War recovers the forgotten history of Latin America’s connections with the Global South, or Third World, during the Cold War. Whereas most histories of Latin America have traditionally looked at either single countries within the region or Latin American relations with the United States, this volume’s editors and contributors expand their scope to uncover the ways that Latin American citizens and governments interacted with counterparts in Asia, Africa, and the Soviet Union. In incorporating Latin America more fully into the burgeoning literature on the Global South and Third Worldism, the volume sheds new light on both the global Third World project and the Cold War in Latin America. Editors Thomas C. Field Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettiná provide an introduction that orients the reader to the historiography on the Global South and the Third World movement or project, putting forth the argument that Latin American Cold War history is in fact Third World history. The volume’s contributors carry this argument through and flesh it out in fourteen excellent case studies split into two chronologically organized conceptual halves that explore the nationalist and internationalist aspects of Latin American Third World endeavors and encounters.