Latin America's Cold War

by Hal Brands

Book Overview

For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called "long peace" afforded the world's superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal Brands sets out to explain what exactly happened in Latin America during the Cold War, and why it was so traumatic. Tracing the tumultuous course of regional affairs from the late 1940s through the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674055284
• ISBN13: 9780674055285
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 385 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.3"