Awards
- Short-listed for Rocky Mountain Book Award 2016
- Short-listed for Thomas McGann Book Prize in Modern Latin American History, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies 2016
- Shortlisted for Rocky Mountain Book Award 2016.
- Winner of Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) 2015-2016
- Winner of Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) 2015–2016
- Winner of Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies Alfred B.Thomas Award 2015-2016
- Winner of Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies Alfred B.Thomas Award 2015-2016.
Overview
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 Cold War era in general, and by maintaining relations with Cuba it played a unique, and heretofore overlooked, role in the hemispheric Cold War. The Cuban Revolution was an especially destabilizing force in Mexico because Fidel Castro's dedication to many of the same nationalist and populist causes that the Mexican revolutionaries had originally pursued in the early twentieth century called attention to the fact that the government had abandoned those promises. A dynamic combination of domestic and international pressures thus initiated Mexico's Cold War and shaped its distinct evolution and outcomes.
Full Product Details
Author: Renata Keller (Boston University)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.540kg
ISBN: 9781107079588
ISBN 10: 1107079586
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 28 July 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
This important book is a landmark study on Mexico and Cuba and the Cold War. Using an innovative selection of official and grassroots sources as well as previously unavailable Cuban government materials, Keller weaves a fascinating and complex account of how debates over the legacy of the Mexican Revolution shaped Mexico's engagement with the Cuban Revolution and the United States as well as reconfigured Mexican domestic politics. Students of Mexican, Cuban, and inter-American politics and history will find it invaluable. Barry Carr, LaTrobe University, Australia At once a history of the Cold War in Mexico and Cuba within the wider global conflict, Renata Keller's engrossing study sets high standards for integrating Latin American history and international relations scholarship. In the process it fleshes out Mexico's distinctive Cold War history at multiple levels of analysis, decoding the nation's complicated, seemingly contradictory relationship with both Fidel Castro's Cuba and the hemisphere's powerful hegemon to the north. Mexico's Cold War also provides an important optic for understanding the powerful legacy of Mexico's twentieth-century revolution. Gilbert M. Joseph, Yale University
Author Information
Renata Keller is an Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
