Latin America Between the Second World War and the Cold War: Crisis and Containment, 1944-1948

by Leslie Bethell

Book Overview

This volume aims to establish that the period between World War II and the beginning of the Cold War (1944-5 to 1947-8) represents an important conjuncture in the political and social history of Latin America in the twentieth century. The volume contains an Introduction and a Conclusion by the editors and case studies of eleven of the twenty Latin American republics. Despite differences of political regime and different levels of economic and social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521574250
• ISBN13: 9780521574259
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"