Author: David Mark CarlettaPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Frances R. Grant's Pan American Activities, 1929-1949
Author: David Mark CarlettaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Neither Peace nor Freedom
Author: Patrick IberPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674915143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
During the Cold War, left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations. Their competing visions of social democracy and their pursuit of justice, peace, and freedom led them to organizations sponsored by the governments of the Cold War powers: the Soviet-backed World Peace Council, the U.S.-supported Congress for Cultural Freedom, and, after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the homegrown Casa de las Américas. Neither Peace nor Freedom delves into the entwined histories of these organizations and the aspirations and dilemmas of intellectuals who participated in them, from Diego Rivera and Pablo Neruda to Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges. Patrick Iber corrects the view that such individuals were merely pawns of the competing superpowers. Movements for democracy and social justice sprung up among pro-Communist and anti-Communist factions, and Casa de las Américas promoted a brand of revolutionary nationalism that was beholden to neither the Soviet Union nor the United States. But ultimately, intellectuals from Latin America could not break free from the Cold War’s rigid binaries. With the Soviet Union demanding fealty from Latin American communists, the United States zealously supporting their repression, and Fidel Castro pushing for regional armed revolution, advocates of social democracy found little room to promote their ideals without compromising them. Cold War politics had offered utopian dreams, but intellectuals could get neither the peace nor the freedom they sought.
120 Years of American Education
Author: Years of adventure, 1874-1920
Author: Herbert HooverPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Pan American Fisherman
Author: Who's who in the East
Author: Who's who in Commerce and Industry
Author: International Educational, Cultural and Related Activities for African Countries South of the Sahara
Author: United States. Bureau of Educational and Cultural AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Grant Wins the War
Author: James R. ArnoldPublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0470255455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Vicksburg is the key. . . . Let us get Vicksburg, and all that country is ours.--President Abraham Lincoln, 1862 In a brilliantly constructed and powerfully rendered new account, James R. Arnold offers a penetrating analysis of Grant's strategies and actions leading to the Union victory at Vicksburg. Approaching these epic events from a unique and well-rounded perspective, and based on careful research, Grant Wins the War is fascinating reading for all Civil War and military history buffs. Acclaim for Grant Wins the War Nicely details the coordination of Union military and naval operations and the boldness and genius of General U. S. Grant that brought Union victory, and he offers an excellent discussion of the technology and tactics of siege warfare. . . . a good drums-and-bugle account of an important event.--Library Journal A particular strength of this work is its demonstration that modern weapons left no shortcuts to victory, and little room for command virtuosity.--Publishers Weekly Throughout, Arnold backs up his assessments with solid facts and sound reasoning, engagingly presented. He has produced a useful and enjoyable brief history of the Vicksburg campaign, helpful to scholars and general readers alike.--Journal of Military History Powerfully and persuasively argues that the Union victory at Vicksburg in 1863 was in fact the actual turning point of the Civil War.--Helena (Mont.) Independent Record