The Last Colonial Massacre by Greg Grandin
After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. With Guatemala as the case study, this title argues that the Latin American Cold War was a struggle not between political liberalism and Soviet communism but two visions of democracy.
"In a series of remarkable biographies Grandin shows how men and women made high politics and high politics made them, demonstrating that the Cold War was waged not only in the airy game rooms of nuclear strategists but 'in the closed quarters of family, sex, and community'" (London Review of Books) "A searing indictment of U.S. imperialism in Latin America." (Science & Society) "This work admirably explains the process in which hopes of democracy were brutally repressed in Guatemala and its people experienced a civil war lasting for half a century." (International History Review) "A richly detailed, humane, and passionately subversive portrait of inspiring reformers tragically redefined by the Cold War as enemies of the state." (Journal of American History)"
Greg Grandin is professor of history at New York University and the author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, among other books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226306902 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226306909 |
| Title | The Last Colonial Massacre |
| Author | Greg Grandin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2011-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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