{"product_id":"latin-americas-democratic-crusade-9780300264401","title":"Latin Americas Democratic Crusade","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy emphasizing Latin American reformers’ decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm and recasts the region’s political evolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A masterpiece of historical description and analysis, filled with vivid characters and contextualized in transnational ways that invite American foreign policymakers to re-examine and practice the democratic principles we preach in Latin America.”—William B. Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eFugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Meticulously researched, \u003ci\u003eLatin America’s Democratic Crusade\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of twentieth-century Latin American politics. It is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the complex processes of political and social change in contemporary Latin America.”—Miguel Tinker Salas, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With engaging prose and fine-grained archival research, Wells compels us to rethink how Latin Americans—from poets and booksellers to revolutionaries and reformers—experienced and understood the Cold War. By framing the era as one marked by struggles between democracy and dictators rather than between capitalism and communism, Wells analyzes the Cold War in Latin America in new and original ways.”—David Carey Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eI Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733518627159,"sku":"9780300264401","price":47.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300264401.jpg?v=1720000401","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/latin-americas-democratic-crusade-9780300264401","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}