Andrew J Kirkendall
Biographic Data
| ID | 255617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew J Kirkendall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirkendall |
| SIGNATURE | KIRKENDALL A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dictatorship Across Borders
Freedom on the Offensive
William Michael Schmidli, a US foreign relations historian at Leiden University in the Netherlands, has made another major contribution to the study of the late Cold War period. His first book, The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and US Cold War Policy toward Argentina (2013), is the best bilateral study we have of US policy toward a South American country during the Jimmy Carter administration. This new book primarily focuses on US relat…
Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Book Review| August 01 2018 Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil. By Buckley, Eve E.. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 279 pp. Paper, $29.95. Andrew J. Kirkendall Andrew J. Kirkendall Texas A&M University Search for other works by this autho…
We Created Chávez
"We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution, by George Ciccariello-Maher." Canadian Journal of History, 50(1), pp. 190–191
Dress Casual
Human Rights and Modernity
Victoria Langland. Speaking of Flowers
The explosion of higher education in many areas of the world, including Mexico and Brazil, following the end of World War II created a large student body aware of itself, frustrated with their schools' crowded conditions and inadequate educational infrastructure, and linked internationally and generationally by habits of consumption and the questioning of authority. Privilege and protest often have gone hand in hand. Not surprisingly, the long 19…
The Nixon Doctrine in South America
Historians of U.S.–Latin American relations during the presidency of Richard M. Nixon have tended to focus almost exclusively on Chile. This book by Brazilian historian Matias Spektor, based on his University of Oxford doctoral dissertation, examines U.S. relations with a country which both Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger saw as a potential partner in an era in which U.S. foreign relations were undergoing a fundamental reexami…
Cleansing Honor with Blood
This book, based on Martha Santos’s 2004 University of Arizona doctoral dissertation, is a welcome contribution to the field of northeastern Brazilian rural history. Santos examines the ways in which the use of violence by men from this region is related to a changing socioeconomic structure rather than being an innate part of their character or culture. She moves away from a recent emphasis on the discourse surrounding the northeast and its peop…
Adiós Muchachos
We Cannot Remain Silent
This important book provides significant insight into how human rights activists made the US Congress and mass media aware of the Brazilian military governments’ torture of political opponents. It is, by far, the most detailed account we have. James N. Green’s skill in combining oral history with archival research adds to the book’s powerful emotional impact.Green makes clear that US activists’ interest in Brazil was slow to develop. Even new int…
The Seduction of Brazil
Antonio Pedro Tota’s book is rich and challenging. It is not, however, altogether convincing. He seeks to show how the United States tried to Americanize Brazil in the early 1940s. It may seem odd to complain that a Brazilian scholar fails to provide enough on the South American side of the equation, but as I read the book, I certainly wanted to know more about ordinary Brazilians’ responses to this effort or even the larger Brazil-ian political …
Kennedy Men and the Fate of the Alliance for Progress in LBJ Era Brazil and Chile
The experiences of US ambassadors to Brazil and Chile in the 1960s, Lincoln Gordon and Ralph Dungan, exemplify the contradictory nature of US commitment to reform in Latin America in that decade. Brazil and Chile were two of the three countries which received the most Alliance for Progress money; their leaders were men whom the US ambassadors strongly supported. These countries, however, were heading in diametrically opposite political directions…
Coisas para o povo nóo fazer
Carnival in Porto Alegre? Tourists and historians alike might be surprised to find the two linked, given that Rio Grande do Sul is generally best known for more rustic entertainments. Alexandre Lazzari’s book offers a valuable look at the development of Carnival in what was still a small town of roughly 40,000, in the era when it began to be a national institution. Brazil’s southernmost state and its capital have made more important contributions…
Paulo Freire, Eduardo Frei, Literacy Training and the Politics of Consciousness Raising in Chile, 1964 to 1970
This article examines the politics of literacy during the administration of Chilean President Eduardo Frei. Literacy training was an essential part of Christian Democratic efforts to promote agrarian reform and rural unionisation and incorporate the peasantry into the Chilean political system. Paulo Freire, working for the ministries of agriculture and education, was able to employ his innovative ‘consciousness raising’ techniques throughout Chil…
Consumption Intensified
Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution
This book represents a missed opportunity. A polemicist in a hurry, McLaren does not provide an adequate analysis of the thought of either Ernesto Guevara or Paulo Freire. He does argue strenuously for the need to create a “pedagogy of revolution,” which presumably would involve an attempt to transform popular consciousness on a grand scale so that the vast majority of the world’s population could become “self-reflexive” agents “of struggle” (p. …
Tropical Multiculturalism
Tropical Multiculturalism provides a major study of race in Brazilian culture through the most complete critical analysis of Brazilian cinema in any language. Focusing on representations of multicultural themes involving Euro- and Afro-Brazilians, other immigrants, and peoples in the rich tradition of the Brazilian fictional feature film, Robert Stam puts Brazilian culture at the centre of a wide-ranging analysis of race, representation, history,…
Tropical Multiculturalism
Tropical Multiculturalism provides a major study of race in Brazilian culture through the most complete critical analysis of Brazilian cinema in any language. Focusing on representations of multicultural themes involving Euro- and Afro-Brazilians, other immigrants, and peoples in the rich tradition of the Brazilian fictional feature film, Robert Stam puts Brazilian culture at the centre of a wide-ranging analysis of race, representation, history,…
Dress Casual
Tropical Multiculturalism
Tropical Multiculturalism provides a major study of race in Brazilian culture through the most complete critical analysis of Brazilian cinema in any language. Focusing on representations of multicultural themes involving Euro- and Afro-Brazilians, other immigrants, and peoples in the rich tradition of the Brazilian fictional feature film, Robert Stam puts Brazilian culture at the centre of a wide-ranging analysis of race, representation, history,…
Consumption Intensified
Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution
This book represents a missed opportunity. A polemicist in a hurry, McLaren does not provide an adequate analysis of the thought of either Ernesto Guevara or Paulo Freire. He does argue strenuously for the need to create a “pedagogy of revolution,” which presumably would involve an attempt to transform popular consciousness on a grand scale so that the vast majority of the world’s population could become “self-reflexive” agents “of struggle” (p. …
Paulo Freire, Eduardo Frei, Literacy Training and the Politics of Consciousness Raising in Chile, 1964 to 1970
This article examines the politics of literacy during the administration of Chilean President Eduardo Frei. Literacy training was an essential part of Christian Democratic efforts to promote agrarian reform and rural unionisation and incorporate the peasantry into the Chilean political system. Paulo Freire, working for the ministries of agriculture and education, was able to employ his innovative ‘consciousness raising’ techniques throughout Chil…
Coisas para o povo nóo fazer
Carnival in Porto Alegre? Tourists and historians alike might be surprised to find the two linked, given that Rio Grande do Sul is generally best known for more rustic entertainments. Alexandre Lazzari’s book offers a valuable look at the development of Carnival in what was still a small town of roughly 40,000, in the era when it began to be a national institution. Brazil’s southernmost state and its capital have made more important contributions…
Kennedy Men and the Fate of the Alliance for Progress in LBJ Era Brazil and Chile
The experiences of US ambassadors to Brazil and Chile in the 1960s, Lincoln Gordon and Ralph Dungan, exemplify the contradictory nature of US commitment to reform in Latin America in that decade. Brazil and Chile were two of the three countries which received the most Alliance for Progress money; their leaders were men whom the US ambassadors strongly supported. These countries, however, were heading in diametrically opposite political directions…
The Seduction of Brazil
Antonio Pedro Tota’s book is rich and challenging. It is not, however, altogether convincing. He seeks to show how the United States tried to Americanize Brazil in the early 1940s. It may seem odd to complain that a Brazilian scholar fails to provide enough on the South American side of the equation, but as I read the book, I certainly wanted to know more about ordinary Brazilians’ responses to this effort or even the larger Brazil-ian political …
Adiós Muchachos
We Cannot Remain Silent
This important book provides significant insight into how human rights activists made the US Congress and mass media aware of the Brazilian military governments’ torture of political opponents. It is, by far, the most detailed account we have. James N. Green’s skill in combining oral history with archival research adds to the book’s powerful emotional impact.Green makes clear that US activists’ interest in Brazil was slow to develop. Even new int…
The Nixon Doctrine in South America
Historians of U.S.–Latin American relations during the presidency of Richard M. Nixon have tended to focus almost exclusively on Chile. This book by Brazilian historian Matias Spektor, based on his University of Oxford doctoral dissertation, examines U.S. relations with a country which both Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger saw as a potential partner in an era in which U.S. foreign relations were undergoing a fundamental reexami…
Cleansing Honor with Blood
This book, based on Martha Santos’s 2004 University of Arizona doctoral dissertation, is a welcome contribution to the field of northeastern Brazilian rural history. Santos examines the ways in which the use of violence by men from this region is related to a changing socioeconomic structure rather than being an innate part of their character or culture. She moves away from a recent emphasis on the discourse surrounding the northeast and its peop…
Human Rights and Modernity
Victoria Langland. Speaking of Flowers
The explosion of higher education in many areas of the world, including Mexico and Brazil, following the end of World War II created a large student body aware of itself, frustrated with their schools' crowded conditions and inadequate educational infrastructure, and linked internationally and generationally by habits of consumption and the questioning of authority. Privilege and protest often have gone hand in hand. Not surprisingly, the long 19…
We Created Chávez
"We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution, by George Ciccariello-Maher." Canadian Journal of History, 50(1), pp. 190–191
Dress Casual
Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Book Review| August 01 2018 Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil. By Buckley, Eve E.. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 279 pp. Paper, $29.95. Andrew J. Kirkendall Andrew J. Kirkendall Texas A&M University Search for other works by this autho…
Freedom on the Offensive
William Michael Schmidli, a US foreign relations historian at Leiden University in the Netherlands, has made another major contribution to the study of the late Cold War period. His first book, The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and US Cold War Policy toward Argentina (2013), is the best bilateral study we have of US policy toward a South American country during the Jimmy Carter administration. This new book primarily focuses on US relat…
Dictatorship Across Borders
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