Philip Chrimes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5657286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Chrimes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Chrimes |
| SIGNATURE | CHRIMES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chatham House |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dictatorship across borders: Brazil, Chile, and the south American Cold War
The fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the hemispheric Cold War
Coups d'état in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982
America, América: A new history of the New World
Why presidents fail: Political parties and government survival in Latin America
The weak and the powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the world
The recasting of the Latin American right: Polarization and conservative reactions
The Sandinista revolution: A global Latin American history; Nicaragua must survive: Sandinista revolutionary diplomacy in the global cold war
Peruvian foreign policy in the modern era
Journal Article Peruvian foreign policy in the modern era Get access Peruvian foreign policy in the modern era. By Ronald Bruce St John. London and New York: Anthem Press. 2023. 126pp. Pb.: £20.99. Isbn978 1 83998 223 1. Available as e-book. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 463–464, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad3…
Latin America's democratic crusade: The transnational struggle against dictatorship, 1920s–1960s
In this sweeping book, historian Allen Wells seeks to dispel the notion that the years prior to the Cuban Revolution in 1959 were marked by a simple regional struggle for power between communists and non-communists.Rather, he maintains, the Cold War 'grafted itself onto an earlier transnational struggle between democracies and dictatorships', one that still resonated as late as the Nicaraguan revolution in 1979 (p.547).Latin America's democratic …
Our comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, & eastern Europe, 1959–1991
Beyond patriotic phobias: Connections, cooperation, and solidarity in the Peruvian–Chilean Pacific world
Journal Article Beyond patriotic phobias: connections, cooperation, and solidarity in the Peruvian–Chilean Pacific world Get access Beyond patriotic phobias: connections, cooperation, and solidarity in the Peruvian–Chilean Pacific world. By Joshua Savala. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2022. 248pp. £71.00. Isbn978 0 52038 589 4. Available as e-book. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Transnational communism across the Americas
Journal Article Transnational communism across the Americas Get access Transnational communism across the Americas. Edited by Marc Becker, Margaret M Power, Tony Wood and Jacob A Zumoff. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2023. 288pp. £99.00. Isbn978 0 25204 522 6. Available as e-book. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 6, November 2…
Challenges to democracy in the Andes: Strongmen, broken constitutions, and regimes in crisis
Journal Article Challenges to democracy in the Andes: strongmen, broken constitutions, and regimes in crisis Get access Challenges to democracy in the Andes: strongmen, broken constitutions, and regimes in crisis. Edited by Maxwell A Cameron and Grace M Jaramillo. Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2022. 263pp. £92.00. Isbn978 1 9550 5542 0. Available as e-book. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on…
Of light and struggle: Social justice, human rights, and accountability in Uruguay
Journal Article Of light and struggle: social justice, human rights, and accountability in Uruguay Get access Of light and struggle: social justice, human rights, and accountability in Uruguay. By Debbie Sharnak. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2023. 352pp. £40.00. Isbn978 1 51282 424 7. Available as e-book. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Aff…
Brazilian authoritarianism: Past and present
Journal Article Brazilian authoritarianism: past and present Get access Brazilian authoritarianism: past and present. By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Oxford and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2022. 328pp. £25.00. Isbn978 0 69121 091 9. Available as e-book. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 420–422, https://doi.…
The Condor trials: Transnational repression and human rights in south America
Francesca Lessa's outstanding new book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the wave of transnational repression—commonly known as ‘Operation Condor’—unleashed by south America's military regimes in the 1970s. The Condor trials is the product of many years of meticulous research and draws on: decades of prior investigation; recently available archival records from Southern Cone repositories and the United States; judicial documents…
Hemispheric alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America
From slavery to services: The struggle for economic independence in the Caribbean
From slavery to services is billed as a sequel to Victor Bulmer-Thomas's magisterial The economic history of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic wars (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). This was a work underpinned by a huge corpus of statistical data collated from a wide range of sources. It adopted a largely thematic approach to the region and was divided into three discrete historical periods (1820–1900, 1900–1960 and 1960–2010). Each…
Landscape of migration: Mobility and environmental change on Bolivia's tropical frontier, 1952 to the present
Landscape of migration: mobility and environmental change on Bolivia's tropical frontier, 1952 to the present Landscape of migration: mobility and environmental change on Bolivia's tropical frontier, 1952 to the present. By Ben Nobbs-Thiessen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2020. 342pp. Index. £93.50. Isbn978 1 4696 5609 0. Available as e-book. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
The CIA in Ecuador
The CIA's public notoriety has long stemmed from its amply chronicled global role as the covert action arm of the US government, which quickly eclipsed its foundational rationale as an intelligence-gathering agency. The CIA in Ecuador, however, is not an exposé of CIA interference in the Andean nation in the mould of dissident CIA agent Philip Agee's Inside the Company: CIA diary (New York: Bantam, 1975), though it does point to at least one inst…
The dictator dilemma: The United States and Paraguay in the Cold War
Washington's blatant support for right-wing dictators across the globe, in tandem with a loudly proclaimed ideological commitment to liberalism and democracy, has been called the central paradox of US foreign policy in the twentieth century. Scholars such as David Schmitz have probed the underlying intellectual rationale for the belief among US policy-makers in the utility of supporting dictators as the best guarantee of political stability and o…
Modern Panama: From occupation to crossroads of the Americas
Throughout the first century of its formal independence (in 1903), Panama was, to many minds, synonymous with the inter-oceanic canal that opened to traffic in 1914, its fate largely determined by geostrategically motivated US concerns about canal security. Michael Conniff and Gene Bigler—longtime observers of the Panamanian scene—ably demonstrate that contemporary Panama is much more than just a canal; the assumption of full sovereignty over the…
Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington assassination brought Pinochet's terror state to justice
The brazen assassination by car bomb of prominent Chilean political exile Orlando Letelier and his American colleague Ronni Moffitt on 21 September 1976 in the heart of Washington DC—‘the worst state-sponsored assassination in U.S. history’ (p. 292) and the most egregious act of Operation Condor beyond South America—was the ghost that haunted US–Chilean relations for the next two decades. Its reverberations were such that the Pinochet regime was …
In their own best interest: A history of the U.S. effort to improve Latin Americans
In their own best interest: a history of the U.S. effort to improve Latin Americans In their own best interest: a history of the U.S. effort to improve Latin Americans. By Lars Schoultz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2018. 400pp. Index. £28.95. Isbn978 0 67498 414 1. Available as e-book. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 3, May …
Hostile acts: US policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s
Journal Article Hostile acts: US policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s Get access Hostile acts: US policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s. By Martha Honey. University of Florida Press. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 1994. 640pp. Index. £44.95; ISBN 0 8130 1249 x. Pb.: £22.50; ISBN 0 8130 1250 3. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes 1Royal Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar In…
Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War
The presidency of Jimmy Carter (1977–81) has frequently been viewed as an intermezzo between the cynical realpolitik of Henry Kissinger under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and the resurgence of the Cold War under Ronald Reagan, a period in which apparent initial idealism—epitomized by the novel, if selective, pursuit of human rights policies—gave way to a hardening of attitudes amid a crescendo of international crises that seemed to ov…
The Cambridge world history of slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804–AD 2016
There has been an immense outpouring of work on the subject of slavery over the last few decades which, to a certain degree, has pivoted the field of study away from its hitherto predominant focus on Atlantic slavery and abolition towards different time periods, other areas of the world and alternative systems of coerced labour. The Cambridge world history of slavery in its entirety represents a distillation of this body of research; its editors …
Talons of the eagle: Dynamics of US-Latin American relations
Journal Article Talons of the eagle: dynamics of US-Latin American relations Get access Talons of the eagle: dynamics of US-Latin American relations. By Peter H. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996. 377pp. Index. Pb.: £13.99. ISBN 0 19 508304 0. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 1997, Pages 557–558, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944–48
Journal Article Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944–48 Get access Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944–48. Edited by Leslie Bethelland Ian Roxborough. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992. 350pp. Index. £30.00. ISBN 0 521 43032 1. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes 1Royal Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Internat…
Africa south of the Sahara, 1993
Journal Article Africa south of the Sahara, 1993 Get access Africa south of the Sahara, 1993. London: Europa. 1993. 986pp. £135.00. ISBN 0 946653 81 x. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes 1Library, Royal Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 1993, Page 399, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621697 Published: 01 April 1993
The Condor trials: Transnational repression and human rights in south America
Francesca Lessa's outstanding new book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the wave of transnational repression—commonly known as ‘Operation Condor’—unleashed by south America's military regimes in the 1970s. The Condor trials is the product of many years of meticulous research and draws on: decades of prior investigation; recently available archival records from Southern Cone repositories and the United States; judicial documents…
The fractured blockade: West European-Cuban relations during the Revolution
Journal Article The fractured blockade: West European-Cuban relations during the Revolution Get access The fractured blockade: West European-Cuban relations during the Revolution. Edited by Alistair Hennessyand George Lambie. London: Macmillan Caribbean. 1993. 358pp. Index. Pb.: £13.95. ISBN 0 333 58365 5. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes 1Royal Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
South America, Central America and the Caribbean, 1993
Journal Article South America, Central America and the Caribbean, 1993 Get access South America, Central America and the Caribbean, 1993. 4th edn.London: Europa. 1993. 718pp. Index. £145.00. ISBN 0 946653 86 0. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes 1Library, Royal Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 1993, Page 630, https://doi.org/10.23…
Beyond patriotic phobias: Connections, cooperation, and solidarity in the Peruvian–Chilean Pacific world
Journal Article Beyond patriotic phobias: connections, cooperation, and solidarity in the Peruvian–Chilean Pacific world Get access Beyond patriotic phobias: connections, cooperation, and solidarity in the Peruvian–Chilean Pacific world. By Joshua Savala. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2022. 248pp. £71.00. Isbn978 0 52038 589 4. Available as e-book. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
The longest line on the map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the quest to link the Americas
In The longest line on the map, Eric Rutkow recounts in lively fashion—and with a predominant emphasis on the role of personalities rather than impersonal factors—the slowly maturing US ambition in the nineteenth century to forge a hemisphere-long transport corridor for self-serving commercial and geopolitical reasons. This ambition was partially fulfilled by means of a variety of privately built railroads between the 1880s and 1920s, and subsequ…
The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador files
Students of inter-American relations during the 1940s have long been aware of the FBI's counter-intelligence role in Latin America, which was carried out for the most part under the auspices of the Special Intelligence Service programme. Indeed, journalist Drew Pearson pointed to the presence of US agents in the region as early as December 1947, shortly after the FBI withdrew its ‘legal attachés’ from US embassies to make way for the recently fou…
Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944–48
Journal Article Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944–48 Get access Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944–48. Edited by Leslie Bethelland Ian Roxborough. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992. 350pp. Index. £30.00. ISBN 0 521 43032 1. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes 1Royal Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Internat…
South America, Central America and the Caribbean, 1993
Journal Article South America, Central America and the Caribbean, 1993 Get access South America, Central America and the Caribbean, 1993. 4th edn.London: Europa. 1993. 718pp. Index. £145.00. ISBN 0 946653 86 0. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes 1Library, Royal Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 1993, Page 630, https://doi.org/10.23…
Africa south of the Sahara, 1993
Journal Article Africa south of the Sahara, 1993 Get access Africa south of the Sahara, 1993. London: Europa. 1993. 986pp. £135.00. ISBN 0 946653 81 x. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes 1Library, Royal Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 1993, Page 399, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621697 Published: 01 April 1993
The Franco—Perón alliance: Relations between Spain and Argentina, 1946–1955
Journal Article The Franco—Perón alliance: relations between Spain and Argentina, 1946–1955 Get access The Franco—Perón alliance: relations between Spain and Argentina, 1946–1955. By Raanan Rein, translated by Martha Grenzeback. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1993. 329pp. Index. £44.95. ISBN 0 8229 3751 4. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes 1Royal Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
The fractured blockade: West European-Cuban relations during the Revolution
Journal Article The fractured blockade: West European-Cuban relations during the Revolution Get access The fractured blockade: West European-Cuban relations during the Revolution. Edited by Alistair Hennessyand George Lambie. London: Macmillan Caribbean. 1993. 358pp. Index. Pb.: £13.95. ISBN 0 333 58365 5. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes 1Royal Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Washington, Somoza and the Sandinistas: State and regime in US policy toward Nicaragua, 1969–1981
Journal Article Washington, Somoza and the Sandinistas: state and regime in US policy toward Nicaragua, 1969–1981 Get access Washington, Somoza and the Sandinistas: state and regime in US policy toward Nicaragua, 1969–1981. By Morris H. Morley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. 343pp. Index. £40.00. ISBN 0 521 45081 0. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes 1Royal Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Hostile acts: US policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s
Journal Article Hostile acts: US policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s Get access Hostile acts: US policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s. By Martha Honey. University of Florida Press. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 1994. 640pp. Index. £44.95; ISBN 0 8130 1249 x. Pb.: £22.50; ISBN 0 8130 1250 3. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes 1Royal Institute of International Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar In…
Traditional politics and regime change in Brazil
Journal Article Traditional politics and regime change in Brazil Get access Traditional politics and regime change in Brazil. By Frances Hagopian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. 317pp. Index. £45.00. ISBN 0 521 41429 6. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 1997, Page 613, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624348 Published: 01 Jul…
Talons of the eagle: Dynamics of US-Latin American relations
Journal Article Talons of the eagle: dynamics of US-Latin American relations Get access Talons of the eagle: dynamics of US-Latin American relations. By Peter H. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996. 377pp. Index. Pb.: £13.99. ISBN 0 19 508304 0. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 1997, Pages 557–558, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Reagan and Pinochet: The struggle over US policy toward Chile. By Morris Morley and Chris McGillion
Journal Article Reagan and Pinochet: the struggle over US policy toward Chile. By Morris Morley and Chris McGillion Get access Reagan and Pinochet: the struggle over US policy toward Chile. By Morris Morleyand Chris McGillion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2015. 354pp. Index. £60.00. ISBN 978 1 107 45809 3. Available as e-book. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Internat…
Back channel to Cuba: The hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana. By William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh
Described in the subtitle as a ‘hidden history’, the subject matter of William LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh's book has been, in fact, only partially hidden from view. The existence of intermittent attempts since 1959 to come to an overall accommodation, especially under Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Carter in the 1970s, and the periodic negotiation of agreements on specific issues of mutual interest—in particular on the question of migration—between …
Contesting trade in Central America: Market reform and resistance. By Rose J. Spalding
The onset of neo-liberalism in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s has attracted considerable scholarly attention, as has the subsequent reaction against it in the first decade of the new century, epitomized by the election of a range of left-wing governments and their ostensible rejection or modification of the once sacrosanct economic prescriptions of the Washington Consensus. Few studies consider the period as a whole and fewer still have bro…
The war has brought peace to Mexico: World War II and the consolidation of the post-revolutionary state. By Halbert Jones
The war has brought peace to Mexico: World War II and the consolidation of the post-revolutionary state. By Halbert Jones. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2014. 312pp. Index. £43.80. ISBN 978 0 8263 5130 2. The attention of historians who have written about Latin America's role in the Second World War has been drawn to the continent's overall function as a supplier of cheap raw materials to the Allies; to the reluctance of Argentina …
Mexico's Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the legacy of the Mexican Revolution. By Renata Keller
Mexico has received short shrift in most writings on the hemispheric Cold War, on account of its perceived political stability, and because it lacks the obvious allure of the better-known cases of overt and covert US intervention. US historian Renata Keller, in a work based on her doctoral dissertation, contends that Mexico was in fact ‘an active battleground where multiple groups debated, spied, schemed, and struggled for influence’ (p. 5). Mexi…
Drugs, thugs, and diplomats: U.S. policymaking in Colombia. By Winifred Tate
Drugs, thugs, and diplomats: U.S. policymaking in Colombia. By Winifred Tate. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2015. 296pp. Index. £69.00. ISBN 987 0 8047 9 566 1. Available as e-book. Winifred Tate, an assistant professor of anthropology at Colby College, brings the distinctive approach of her academic discipline to bear on this impressive study—part of a Stanford series on the anthropology of policy—of the panoply of ‘forces and imagina…
Healthcare without borders: Understanding Cuban medical internationalism. By John M. Kirk
Journal Article Healthcare without borders: understanding Cuban medical internationalism. By John M. Kirk Get access Healthcare without borders: understanding Cuban medical internationalism. Edited by John M. Kirk. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2015. 384pp. £52.00. ISBN: 978 0 81306 105 4. Philip Chrimes Philip Chrimes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 1, J…
Nicaragua: Navigating the politics of democracy. By David Close
Nicaragua: navigating the politics of democracy. By David Close. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner. 2016. 215pp. Index. £62.50. ISBN 978 1 62637 435 5. This is a book, as Canadian political scientist David Close succinctly puts it, about ‘Nicaragua's transition to, through, and from democracy’ (p. 155), in the period between the triumph of the Sandinista revolution over the Somoza family dictatorship in 1979 and 2015, when Daniel Ortega, one of the lead…
Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War
The presidency of Jimmy Carter (1977–81) has frequently been viewed as an intermezzo between the cynical realpolitik of Henry Kissinger under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and the resurgence of the Cold War under Ronald Reagan, a period in which apparent initial idealism—epitomized by the novel, if selective, pursuit of human rights policies—gave way to a hardening of attitudes amid a crescendo of international crises that seemed to ov…
Dollar diplomacy by force: Nation-building and resistance in the Dominican Republic
The US military occupation of the Dominican Republic from 1916 to 1924—lacking any basis in international law, without even the façade of a puppet government as in neighbouring Haiti, and initially undertaken when the world (including the State Department) was distracted by the war in Europe—has understandably been of keen interest to historians because the US authorities' promotion of governmental centralization over the hitherto predominant for…
Disciplinary conquest: U.S. scholars in South America, 1900–1945
In this elegantly written, coruscating book—clearly the product of many years of wide reading and sober reflection—Argentine scholar Ricardo Salvatore significantly revises the standard account of the origins of Latin American studies in the United States, and casts wider the net of scholars who are deemed to have actively promoted through their scholarship the broader goals of US foreign policy in Latin America between the era of Theodore Roosev…
A history of political murder in Latin America: Killing the messengers of change
Latin America is a continent with a reputation for violence in all its varied forms. Over the last few decades, scholars of all stripes have devoted considerable effort to analysing the phenomenon, both as it has occurred in the history of individual countries such as Colombia—which even refers to a particular period of its recent history simply as La Violencia or ‘The Violence’—and in comparative terms. W. John Green's new book, with its arresti…
The Salvador option: The United States in El Salvador, 1977–1992
Russell Crandall, a professor of American foreign policy at Davidson College in North Carolina, who served stints at the Pentagon and on the National Security Council during the administration of George W. Bush, is an author who has previously generated a certain amount of controversy. In a 2006 work, Gunboat democracy: US interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama (Rowman and Littlefield), he posited that full-scale US military…
Latin America and the First World War
In Latin America and the First World War, a translation of a work that first appeared in German in 2015, with the more evocative title Im Sog der Katastrophe [In the maelstrom of the catastrophe], Stefan Rinke examines the profound impact that the First World War had on all the countries of Latin America. ‘Never before’, Rinke contends, ‘had an event overseas aroused such a response among the Latin American public’ (p. 107). The war represented a…
The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador files
Students of inter-American relations during the 1940s have long been aware of the FBI's counter-intelligence role in Latin America, which was carried out for the most part under the auspices of the Special Intelligence Service programme. Indeed, journalist Drew Pearson pointed to the presence of US agents in the region as early as December 1947, shortly after the FBI withdrew its ‘legal attachés’ from US embassies to make way for the recently fou…
The Cambridge world history of slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804–AD 2016
There has been an immense outpouring of work on the subject of slavery over the last few decades which, to a certain degree, has pivoted the field of study away from its hitherto predominant focus on Atlantic slavery and abolition towards different time periods, other areas of the world and alternative systems of coerced labour. The Cambridge world history of slavery in its entirety represents a distillation of this body of research; its editors …
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