Zolov The Last Good Neighbor

Mexico in the Global Sixties
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0710-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Reihe: American encounters/global interactions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zolov, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.