Review of Renata Keller, “Mexico’s Cold War”
My review of Renata Keller’s very fine book has now appeared in the Journal of Latin American Studies 48, no. 4 (November 2016): 868-869. Renata Keller, Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, […]
Category Archives: Reviews
A review of Jorge García Robles, “At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico”
This review will appear in the Journal of Latin American Studies; at least until it does, I’m reasonably certain that I can host it here. Jorge García-Robles, At the End […]
Book review of Niño and Montero, Guerra Fría y propaganda
A book review that appeared in the journal Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe. Antonio Niño and José Antonio Montero, eds., Guerra Fría y propaganda: Estados Unidos y su cruzada […]
Review of Deborah Cohn’s "The Latin American Literary Boom"
A review I wrote of Deborah Cohn’s The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War that will appear in the journal The Latin Americanist. If the […]
Review of Phillip Deery’s "Red Apple"
I did a review of Phillip Deery’s new book “Red Apple” for the Australasian Journal of American Studies. Red Apple. By Phillip Deery, Fordham University Press, New York, 2014, pp. […]
A Diplomatic History of Mexican Diplomacy
My review of Roberta Lajous Vargas’s “Las relaciones exteriores de México (1821-2000),” is up at Letras Libres. I wrote in Spanish, so there’s no English version to post here, but […]
Paper Bullets, Paper Tigers?: On War and Public Opinion
UPDATE: The essay (indeed the entire volume) is now freely available online. Here’s the link to the table of contents and here is the entire volume in PDF. I have […]
Cuauhtémoc: Congruencia y contradicción
My review of Sobre mis pasos, the political memoirs of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, was published by Nexos. The final, key graf: Nada de lo anterior implica regatearle sus logros a cualquiera […]
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