This essay reviews the following works:
Cuban International Relations at 60: Reflections on Global Connections. Edited by Mervyn J. Bain and Chris Walker. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. vi + 299. $110.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781793630186.
Itineraries or Expertise: Science Technology and the Environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War. Edited by Andra B. Chastain and Timothy W. Lorek. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 347. $40.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780822945963.
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War: A Short History with Documents. By Michelle Getchell. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2018. Pp. vii + 190. $18.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781624667411.
Diplomacy Meets Migration: US Relations with Cuba during the Cold War. By Hideaki Kami. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 360. $51.99 cloth. ISBN: 9781108423427.
A la sombra de la superpotencia: Tres presidentes mexicanos en la Guerra Fría, 1945–1958. By Soledad Loaeza. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2022. Pp. 470. Mex$360. ISBN: 9786075641669.
Ethnographies of US Empire. Edited by Carole McGranahan and John F. Collins. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 548. $32.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478000235.
Revolution in the Terra do Sol: The Cold War in Brazil. By Sarah Sarzynski. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 334. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781503603691.
Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War. By William Michael Schmidli. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. Pp. xii + 312. $46.95 cloth. ISBN: 9781501765148.
In Their Own Best Interest: A History of the US Effort to Improve Latin Americans. By Lars Schoultz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 392. $35.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780674984141.
The Dictator Dilemma: The United States and Paraguay in the Cold War. By Kirk Tyvela. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. x + 261. $45.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780822965732.