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The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History
The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as soon as the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990 and the Iran Contra affair ceased to make headlines, it became, in Washington at least, a thing of the past.
Mateo Jarquín recenters the revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin America, the international left, and the Cold War. Drawing on research in Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica, he recreates the perspective of Sandinista leaders in Managua and argues that their revolutionary project must be understood in international context. Because struggles over the Revolution unfolded transnationally, the Nicaraguan drama had lasting consequences for Latin American politics at a critical juncture. It also reverberated in Western Europe, among socialists worldwide, and beyond, illuminating global dynamics like the spread of democracy and the demise of a bipolar world dominated by two superpowers.
Jarquín offers a sweeping analysis of the last left-wing revolution of the twentieth century, an overview of inter-American affairs in the 1980s, and an incisive look at the making of the post-Cold War order.
Mateo Jarquín recenters the revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin America, the international left, and the Cold War. Drawing on research in Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica, he recreates the perspective of Sandinista leaders in Managua and argues that their revolutionary project must be understood in international context. Because struggles over the Revolution unfolded transnationally, the Nicaraguan drama had lasting consequences for Latin American politics at a critical juncture. It also reverberated in Western Europe, among socialists worldwide, and beyond, illuminating global dynamics like the spread of democracy and the demise of a bipolar world dominated by two superpowers.
Jarquín offers a sweeping analysis of the last left-wing revolution of the twentieth century, an overview of inter-American affairs in the 1980s, and an incisive look at the making of the post-Cold War order.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Publish Date: Apr 30th, 2024
- Pages: 336
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.76in - 1.15lb
- EAN: 9781469678498
- Categories: • Latin America - Central America• Cultural & Ethnic Studies - Caribbean & Latin American Studi• International Relations - General
About the Author
Jarquín, Mateo: - Mateo Jarquín is assistant professor of history at Chapman University.
Praise for this book
"An authoritative, deeply documented account of a pivotal period in Nicaraguan history that also brilliantly illuminates major trends in inter-American and North-South relations."--Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs
"Transnational history at its best . . . [Jarquín] chart[s], in commendably accessible prose, the vicissitudes of the Nicaraguan Revolution in the global context within which it needs to be properly viewed. . . . [The book} offer[s] important, nuanced insights into the nature of Sandinista revolutionary diplomacy, and into how it interacted with US allies in Latin America and western Europe."--International Affairs
"The Sandinista Revolution makes the case for diplomatic history brilliantly . . . Jarquín's contribution to the broader project of understanding Latin America's last great revolution is . . . impressive."--Los Angeles Review of Books
"The Sandinista Revolution convincingly shift[s] attention to the myriad efforts undertaken by state and non-state actors to bring peace to Nicaragua in the decade following the ouster of Somoza.. . . Exhaustively researched."--Cold War History
"A concise and nuanced telling of the Sandinista Revolution and its international legacy that effectively de-centers the United States. . . . Jarquín looks beyond the shadow of U.S. imperialism and toward the broader international influences that informed and responded to the shifting governing practices of Sandinista leadership throughout the 1980s."--A Contracorriente
"Impressively researched . . . Jarquín has written an opportune history of the self-described Sandinista 'revolution.'"--ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America
"This is the new go-to source to understand the revolution through a joint exploration of domestic and transnational politics, and how those two intertwined."--CHOICE
"Jarquín takes a balanced and nuanced approach. . . . Refreshingly, he sees the Sandinista Revolution outside the narrow prism of US foreign policy debates. VERDICT: A meticulous political history of the Sandinistas during the long 1980s."--Library Journal
"For its analysis on the diplomatic history of the Sandinista Revolution, this book is a must-read for those interested in Nicaragua, Central America, Latin American relations, and even US intervention in Latin America."--H-LatAm