The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War by Keller, Renata

The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War

Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is...
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The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War by Keller, Renata

The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War

$44.93

The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War

$44.93
Author: Renata Keller
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba as the central staging ground--a standard account that obscures the shock waves that reverberated throughout Latin America. This first hemispheric examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis shows how leaders and ordinary citizens throughout the region experienced it, revealing that, had the missiles been activated, millions of people across Latin America would have been at grave risk.

Traversing the region from the Southern Cone to Central America, Renata Keller describes the deadly riots that shook Bolivia when news of the Cuban Missile Crisis broke, the naval quarantine that members of Argentina's armed forces formed around Cuba, the pro-Castro demonstrations organized by Nicaraguan students, and much more. Drawing on a vast array of archival sources from around the hemisphere and world, The Fate of the Americas demonstrates that even at the brink of destruction, Latin Americans played active roles in global politics and inter-American relations.



Author: Renata Keller
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/14/2025
Pages: 332
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781469689432

About the Author
Renata Keller is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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