In from the Cold

<div>Over the last decade studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions studies have proceeded in rather conventional channels focusing on U.S. policy objectives and high-profile leaders (Fidel Castro) and events (the Cuban Missile Crisis) and drawing largely on U.S. government sources. Moreover only rarely have U.S. foreign relations scholars engaged productively with Latin American historians who analyze how the international conflict transformed the region's political social and cultural life. Representing a collaboration among eleven North American Latin American and European historians anthropologists and political scientists this volume attempts to facilitate such a cross-fertilization. In the process <i>In From the Cold</i> shifts the focus of attention away from the bipolar conflict the preoccupation of much of the so-called new Cold War history in order to showcase research discussion and an array of new archival and oral sources centering on the grassroots where conflicts actually brewed.<p>The collection's contributors examine international and everyday contests over political power and cultural representation focusing on communities and groups above and underground on state houses and diplomatic board rooms manned by Latin American and international governing elites on the relations among states regionally and less frequently on the dynamics between the two great superpowers themselves. In addition to charting new directions for research on the Latin American Cold War <i>In From the Cold</i> seeks to contribute more generally to an understanding of the conflict in the global south.</p><p><i>Contributors</i>. Ariel C. Armony Steven J. Bachelor Thomas S. Blanton Seth Fein Piero Gleijeses Gilbert M. Joseph Victoria Langland Carlota McAllister Stephen Pitti Daniela Spenser Eric Zolov</p></div>