If US foreign relations scholars once claimed the phrase “the US and the world” to describe the evolution of their field, it is now clear that historians invested in examining Latin America's international and transnational history have established “Latin America and the world” as a distinctive area of scholarship. Many pioneers of this new field, which expands and decenters our understanding of Latin Americans' global interactions, are to be found in this excellent and ambitious volume edited by Thomas Field Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettinà. Bringing together 15 scholars from Europe and the Americas, Latin America and the Global Cold War comprises 14 chapters, an introduction by the editors, and an afterword by Odd Arne Westad. This edited collection has been eagerly awaited, and the wait has been worth it.
The focus of the volume is on Latin Americans' twentieth-century interactions with people and processes beyond the Americas. It...
