Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution

Name: Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution
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ISBN: 9780275967062

ISBN-10: 0275967069

ISBN-13: 9780275967062

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Thomas C. Wright

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After Fidel Castro's guerrilla war against dictator Fulgencio Batista triumphed on January 1, 1959, the Cuban Revolution came to be seen as a major watershed in Latin American history. The three decades following Castro's victory gradually marginalized Cuba from the Latin American mainstream. But, as long-time Cuba observer Thomas C. Wright shows, the Cuban Revolution owed its vast influence in Latin America to the fact that it embodied the aspirations and captured the imaginations of Latin America's masses as no other political movement had ever done. After reviewing the background to Castro's Cuban Revolution, Wright examines the radical social and economic transformation of Cuba and…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 10/30/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Cuban Revolution and Latin America



Fidel Castro's Road to Power, 1952-1959



Cuba: The Making of a Revolution



Fidelismo and the Radicalization of Latin American Politics



U.S. Responses to Revolution



Rural Guerrilla Warfare



Urban Guerrilla Warfare



The Peruvian Military Revolution, 1968-1975



Chile under Allende: A Peaceful Road to Socialism?



The Antirevolutionary Military Regimes



The Nicaraguan Revolution



Transitions of the 1990s


Selected Bibliography


Index