The Sandinista Revolution
A Global Latin American History
By Mateo Jarquín
336 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 3 maps
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7849-8
Published: April 2024 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7848-1
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Mateo Jarquín recenters the revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin America, the international left, and the Cold War. Drawing on research in Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica, he recreates the perspective of Sandinista leaders in Managua and argues that their revolutionary project must be understood in international context. Because struggles over the Revolution unfolded transnationally, the Nicaraguan drama had lasting consequences for Latin American politics at a critical juncture. It also reverberated in Western Europe, among socialists worldwide, and beyond, illuminating global dynamics like the spread of democracy and the demise of a bipolar world dominated by two superpowers.
Jarquín offers a sweeping analysis of the last left-wing revolution of the twentieth century, an overview of inter-American affairs in the 1980s, and an incisive look at the making of the post–Cold War order.
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Mateo Jarquín is assistant professor of history at Chapman University.
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"An authoritative, deeply documented account of a pivotal period in Nicaraguan history that also brilliantly illuminates major trends in inter-American and North-South relations.”—Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs
"Transnational history at its best . . . [Jarquín] chart[s], in commendably accessible prose, the vicissitudes of the Nicaraguan Revolution in the global context within which it needs to be properly viewed. . . . [The book} offer[s] important, nuanced insights into the nature of Sandinista revolutionary diplomacy, and into how it interacted with US allies in Latin America and western Europe."—International Affairs
"The Sandinista Revolution makes the case for diplomatic history brilliantly . . . Jarquín’s contribution to the broader project of understanding Latin America’s last great revolution is . . . impressive."—Los Angeles Review of Books
"Jarquín takes a balanced and nuanced approach. . . . Refreshingly, he sees the Sandinista Revolution outside the narrow prism of US foreign policy debates. VERDICT: A meticulous political history of the Sandinistas during the long 1980s."—Library Journal
"This is the new go-to source to understand the revolution through a joint exploration of domestic and transnational politics, and how those two intertwined."—CHOICE
"An important contribution to the study of the Nicaraguan Revolution as well as to diplomatic history. The book goes beyond previous discussions on international support for the Sandinistas before their 1979 triumph by actually analyzing the reasons for support from Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, and Costa Rica."—Jeff Gould, Institute for Advanced Study
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