This book is a collection of articles on Latin American studies during the Cold War in seven different countries (Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba). There is also a particularly detailed chapter on the United States written by the editor, Ronald Chilcote. Gilbert Joseph provides an incisive foreword, and there is a short afterword (by way of conclusion) by Judith Adler Hellman that also briefly addresses Latin American studies in Canada. In particular, Adler Hellman outlines trends such as how Canada's refusal to end diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba resulted in a Havana-Ottawa axis that facilitated a distinctive political and even geopolitical direction for Latin American studies in Canada.
Rory Miller, meanwhile, emphasizes that neither Cold War imperatives nor British economic interests had much to do with early post-1945 efforts to stimulate Latin American studies in Britain. Work on the region was initially driven...
