Caribbean Revolutions

Rachel A. May is Director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (ISLAC) at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Terror in the Countryside: Campesino Responses to Political Violence in Guatemala, 1954–1985 (2001). She is the co-editor and a contributor to (Un)Civil Societies: Human Rights and Democratic Transitions in Eastern Europe and Latin America (2007), and La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence (2014). Alejandro Schneider is Professor of History at both the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of La Plata (Argentina). He is a labor historian who has worked on the history of armed and social movements in Latin America, and he is the author or editor of fourteen books on Argentine and Latin American history. Roberto González Arana is Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Latin America and the Caribbean Studies at the University of the North (Uninorte) in Barranquilla, Colombia. His many publications include Dictaduras en el Caribe (2018) and Sociedades en conflicto: movimientos sociales en América Latina (2016).

'This volume is an important, engaging, accessible introduction to the study of guerrilla movements in the Caribbean region in the Cold War era. With the innovative incorporation of case studies in Puerto Rico and Colombia, the authors meaningfully expand our understanding of the conflicts as being rooted not just in the Cold War's ideological divide, but also in longer and more deeply rooted processes related to imperialism, economic inequality, and social injustice. Very useful for classroom purposes!' Karen Racine, University of Guelph, Canada

• 1. Cuban revolutionaries and the Caribbean Basin: an introduction; 2. Armed revolutionary struggle in Guatemala; 3. Armed revolutionary struggle in El Salvador; 4. The armed movement that took power: the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua; 5. Armed revolutionary struggle in Colombia; 6. Armed organizations within the Puerto Rican revolutionary nationalist movement; 7. Armed revolutionary movements in comparative perspective.