This book is a history of the Cold War in Mexico, and Mexico in the Cold War. Renata Keller draws on declassified Mexican and US intelligence sources and Cuban diplomatic records to challenge earlier interpretations that depicted Mexico as a peaceful haven and a weak neighbor forced to submit to US pressure. Mexico did in fact suffer from the political and social turbulence that characterized the Cold War era in general, and by maintaining relations with Cuba it played a unique, and heretofore overlooked, role in the hemispheric Cold War. The Cuban Revolution was an especially destabilizing force in Mexico because Fidel Castro's dedication to many of the same nationalist and populist causes that the Mexican revolutionaries had originally pursued in the early twentieth century called attention to the fact that the government had abandoned those promises. A dynamic combination of domestic and international pressures thus initiated Mexico's Cold War and shaped its distinct evolution and outcomes.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9781107079588
eBay Product ID (ePID)
214401077
Product Key Features
Author
Renata Keller
Publication Name
Mexico's Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
160mm
Item Weight
540g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Renata Keller
Series Title
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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