Sandinista Revolution (eBook)

A Global Latin American History

Mateo Jarquin (Autor)

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2024
336 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7850-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as soon as the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990 and the Iran Contra affair ceased to make headlines, it became, in Washington at least, a thing of the past. Mateo Jarquin recenters the revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin America, the international left, and the Cold War. Drawing on research in Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica, he recreates the perspective of Sandinista leaders in Managua and argues that their revolutionary project must be understood in international context. Because struggles over the Revolution unfolded transnationally, the Nicaraguan drama had lasting consequences for Latin American politics at a critical juncture. It also reverberated in Western Europe, among socialists worldwide, and beyond, illuminating global dynamics like the spread of democracy and the demise of a bipolar world dominated by two superpowers. Jarquin offers a sweeping analysis of the last left-wing revolution of the twentieth century, an overview of inter-American affairs in the 1980s, and an incisive look at the making of the postCold War order.

Autor

Mateo Jarquin is assistant professor of history at Chapman University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2024
• Reihe/Serie: New Cold War History
• Zusatzinfo: 3 maps
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anastasio Somoza • authoritarianism in Latin America • Central American history • Central American politics • civil war in Nicaragua • Cold War in Latin America • Contras • Democracy in Latin America • diplomatic history • end of the Cold War • FSLN • international relations in the Cold War • Latin American foreign policy • Latin American revolutions • Leftist movements in Latin America • Nicaragua • Nicaraguan foreign policy • Nicaraguan politics • Sandinista National Liberation Front • Sandinista revolution • sandinistas • Socialism in Latin America • Solidarity movements in Latin America • third wave of democratization • US Foreign Policy
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7850-0 / 1469678500
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7850-4 / 9781469678504