Review of Aldo Marchesi, “Latin America’s Radical Left”
I have a review of Aldo Marchesi’s Latin America’s Radical Left up at h-net; it’s open access, like all h-net content, so just click over.
Category Archives: Latin America
Review of two books on Cuba’s Cold War for The Nation
In The Nation, I have a review of Jonathan Brown’s Cuba’s Revolutionary World and Dirk Kruijt’s Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America. In February 1962, Fidel Castro spoke the words of the Second Declaration […]
Review of Richard Cándida Smith, “Improvised Continent”
An edited version of this will be in the Journal of Latin American Studies later, but I’m allowed to post pre-print text here. Richard Cándida Smith, Improvised Continent: Pan-Americanism and […]
Syllabus Spring 2018: Latin America: An Introduction
LACIS 260 Latin America: An Introduction Professor Patrick Iber Spring 2018 This course will give a broad overview of Latin American history from the pre-colonial era to the present […]
Syllabus Fall 2017: Poverty and Inequality in the Americas
HIST 600 Poverty and Inequality in the Americas Professor Patrick Iber Fall 2017 / W 1:20-3:15 / Humanities 5257 Poverty and inequality are not new problems, but […]
“Social Science, Cultural Imperialism, and the Ford Foundation in the 1960s,” in The Global 1960s
I have a chapter in this edited volume, The Global 1960s, on how the Ford Foundation gets trapped by a climate of suspicion it helps create as it tries to move […]
Review of “Precarious Paths to Freedom”
I have a review of Aragorn Storm Miller’s Precarious Paths to Freedom in the August issue of the Journal of Latin American Studies. In the past several years, historians have been busy […]
“The South is Our North,” in Jacobin
In Jacobin no. 25, dedicated to Latin America and the Pink Tide, I have a short article on the problems and promise of TeleSUR. The promise: The problem that TeleSUR […]
On the “Understanding Latin American Politics” podcast with Greg Weeks
I’m on podcast #33 of the very informative “Understanding Latin American Politics” podcast with Greg Weeks. We talk about how I got started doing the kind of work that I […]
Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America has won the 2017 Luciano Tomassini Prize
My book, Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America, was released on September 14, 2015 by Harvard University Press. It ships (Amazon, Powell’s). It can be purchased […]
