The Last Good Neighbor

Mexico in the Global Sixties

Eric Zolov (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0543-8 (ISBN)

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In The Last Good Neighbor Eric Zolov presents a revisionist account of Mexican domestic politics and international relations during the long 1960s, tracing how Mexico emerged from the shadow of FDR's Good Neighbor policy to become a geopolitical player in its own right during the Cold War. Zolov shows how President Adolfo López Mateos (1958–1964) leveraged Mexico's historical ties with the United States while harnessing the left's passionate calls for solidarity with developing nations in a bold attempt to alter the course of global politics. During this period, Mexico forged relationships with the Soviet Bloc, took positions at odds with US interests, and entered the scene of Third World internationalism. Drawing on archival research from Mexico, the United States, and Britain, Zolov gives a broad perspective on the multitudinous, transnational forces that shaped Mexican political culture in ways that challenge standard histories of the period.

Eric Zolov is Professor of History at Stony Brook University. He is coeditor of Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico since 1940, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Refried Elvis: The Rise of Mexican Counterculture.

List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Mexico in the Global Sixties 1
1. Mexico's "Restless" Left and the Resurrection of Lázaro Cárdenas 21
2. "Luniks and Sputniks in Chapultepec!": The 1959 Soviet Exhibition and Peaceful Coexistence in Mexico 55
3. Mexico's New Internationalism: Regional Leadership amid the Tumult of the Cuban Revolution 80
4. The "Spirit of Bandung" in Mexican National Politics 108
5. The "Preferred Revolution": Confronting the Crisis of Mexican Neutralism 140
6. New Left Splits: The Implosion of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional 162
7. Apex of Internationalism: Pursuing a Global Pivot 197
8. The Last Good Neighbor 246
Epilogue. Into the Global 1970s 285
Notes 299
Bibliography 373
Index 389

Erscheinungsdatum	28.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	American Encounters/Global Interactions
Zusatzinfo	34 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	703 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4780-0543-2 / 1478005432
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0543-8 / 9781478005438
Zustand	Neuware