Mexico and the Caribbean Under Castro's Eyes E-Book

Colin Clarke

• Herausgeber: Springer International Publishing
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Studies of the Americas
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

This book provides a first-hand account of the author’s encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume: decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban revolution, the cold war and student radicalism.