Beyond the “Historiographical Monroe Doctrine”: The Latin American Left and the World

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This essay reviews the following works: Latin America and the Global Cold War. Edited by Thomas C. Field Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettinà. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 440. $42.50 hardcover, $29.99 e-book. ISBN: 9781469655697. La imagen tricontinental: La feminidad, el Che Guevara, y el imperialismo a través del arte gráfico de la OSPAAAL. By Alberto García Molinero. Santiago de Chile: Ariadna Ediciones, 2022. Open access: http://ariadnaediciones.cl/images/pdf/LaImagenTricontinental.pdf. From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity. By Anne Garland Mahler. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 347. $28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822371250. Toward a Global History of Latin America’s Revolutionary Left. Edited by Tanya Harmer and Alberto Martín Álvarez. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. Pp. xi + 301. $90.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781683401698. No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War. By Ariel Mae Lambe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 310. $37.50 paperback. ISBN: 9781469652856. The Tricontinental Revolution: Third World Radicalism and the Cold War. Edited by R. Joseph Parrott and Mark Atwood Lawrence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xvii + 365. $120.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781316519110. South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left. By Jessica Stites Mor. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. Pp. xix + 266. $79.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780299336103. Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. By Christy Thornton. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 301. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780520297166.