Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War
By Tanya Harmer
400 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 8 halftones, 2 maps, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-1390-1
Published: February 2014 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-6924-6
Published: October 2011 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-8594-4
Published: October 2011
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Awards & distinctions
2013 Luciano Tomassini Book Award, Latin American Studies Association
Tanya Harmer argues that this battle was part of a dynamic inter-American Cold War struggle to determine Latin America's future, shaped more by the contest between Cuba, Chile, the United States, and Brazil than by a conflict between Moscow and Washington. Drawing on firsthand interviews and recently declassified documents from archives in North America, Europe, and South America--including Chile's Foreign Ministry Archive--Harmer provides the most comprehensive account to date of Cuban involvement in Latin America in the early 1970s, Chilean foreign relations during Allende's presidency, Brazil's support for counterrevolution in the Southern Cone, and the Nixon administration's Latin American policies. The Cold War in the Americas, Harmer reveals, is best understood as a multidimensional struggle, involving peoples and ideas from across the hemisphere.
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Tanya Harmer is lecturer in international history at the London School of Economics.
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"A first-rate work of international history."--International Affairs
“Writers will look to Harmer’s book as a model for scholarship on the inter-American experience.”--Journal of American History
"A carefully researched, creative, highly original, well-crafted, well-written, thoughtful insertion of Chile's story into the global and inter-American history of the Cold War. Of the hundreds of volumes on my bookshelves on Chile, I would not want to be without this one. No serious student of the Popular Unity government in Chile should fail to read Harmer's account."--American Historical Review
“Harmer’s is an insightful contribution to the study of Chile and of bilateral and multilateral relations in the Americas.”--Latin American Perspectives
“An important new contribution to the study of international relations during the Allende years.”--Journal of Latin American Studies
“Admirably measured and comprehensive.”--Latin American Research Review
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