List of Illustrations viii
Series Editor’s Preface xi
Preface and Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
1 Dependency, Development, and Liberation: Latin America in the Cold War 9
2 Brazil: What Road to Development? 20
3 Argentina: Between Peronism and Military Rule 55
4 Chile: From Pluralistic Socialism to Authoritarian Free Market 82
5 Argentina: The Terrorist State 112
6 Brazil: The Long Road Back 137
7 Chile: A ‘Protected Democracy’? 156
Conclusion 179
Sources 185
Index 201

Jerry Dávila is Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of
Brazilian History at the University of Illinois. He is the author
of Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil,
1917-1945 (2003) and Hotel Trópico: Brazil and
the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950 – 1980
(2010), both of which have been translated into Portuguese and
published in Brazil. Dávila has taught in both the United
States and Latin America, where he held the Fulbright Distinguished
Chair in American Studies at the Pontifícia Universidade
Católica in Rio de Janeiro and was a Fulbright Scholar at the
University of São Paulo.