The Tricontinental Revolution
The Tricontinental Revolution
The Tricontinental Revolution provides a major reassessment of the global rise and impact of Tricontinentalism, the militant strand of Third World solidarity that defined the 1960s and 1970s as decades of rebellion. Cold War interventions highlighted the limits of decolonization, prompting a generation of global South radicals to adopt expansive visions of self-determination. Long associated with Cuba, this anti-imperial worldview stretched far beyond the Caribbean to unite international revolutions around programs of socialism, armed revolt, economic sovereignty, and confrontational diplomacy. Linking independent nations with non-state movements from North Vietnam through South Africa to New York City, Tricontinentalism encouraged marginalized groups to mount radical challenges to the United States and the inequitable Euro-centric international system. Through eleven expert essays, this volume recenters global political debates on the priorities and ideologies of the Global South, providing a new framework, chronology, and tentative vocabulary for understanding the evolution of anti-imperial and decolonial politics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
- Brings together a diverse set of global case studies examining militant Third World internationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
- The first book to use archives and expertise on five continents to situate Tricontinentalism within the wider history of Third World and anti-imperial internationalism
- Connects the Latin American tradition of Tricontinentalism to traditions of Afro-Asian collaboration and the Cold War's impact in the Third World
- This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Reviews & endorsements
'This is an exciting and pathbreaking new volume on Tricontinentalism. Probing the long-term origins and reach of the Tricontinental Conference of 1966, it underscores the global significance of twentieth century anti-imperialist projects. Between them, the 13 authors complicate romanticised views of the Tricontinental era, seeking to historicize and better understand its characteristics, opportunity, scale and diversity. The result is an important and nuanced contribution to new histories of the global South, the Cold War, and the struggles to define our contemporary world.' Tanya Harmer, author of Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America
'The Tricontinental Revolution is a major contribution to one of the most exciting recent trends in twentieth century international history: the turn toward the Global South. Centering the pivotal decades of the 1960s and 1970s, it deftly grapples with what made Tricontinentalism unique, how it fit within the broad history of anti-imperialism, and what difference it made in its time and since. It is a volume that all future work in the field must contend with.' Erez Manela, Harvard University
'An excellent introduction to the Third World alternative to the Cold War, from The League against Imperialism via the Tricontinental Conference to the Palestinian solidarity movement. There is so much to learn from this book for those interested in the history of anti-imperialist politics.' O. A. Westad, author of The Cold War: A World History
Product details
January 2022Hardback
9781316519110
313 pages
235 × 158 × 28 mm
0.72kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: Tricontinentalism and the anti-imperial project R. Joseph Parrott
- Part I. Chronologies of third worldism:
- 1. Global solidarity before the Tricontinental Conference: Latin America and the League Against Imperialism Anne Garland Mahler
- 2. Tricontinentalism: the construction of global political alliances Rafael Hernández and Jennifer Ruth Hosek
- 3. The PLO and the limits of secular revolution, 1975–1982 Paul Thomas Chamberlin
- Part II. A global worldview:
- 4. Fueling the world revolution: Vietnamese communist internationalism, 1954–1975 Pierre Asselin
- 5. Through the looking glass: African National Congress and the Tricontinental Revolution Ryan Irwin
- 6. The romance of revolutionary transatlanticism: Cuban-Algerian relations and the diverging trends within third world internationalism Jeffrey James Byrne
- Part III. Superpower responses to Tricontinentalism:
- 7. Reddest place north of Havana: the Tricontinental and the struggle to lead the 'third world' Jeremy Friedman
- 8. 'A propaganda boon for us': the Havana Tricontinental Conference and the United States response Eric Gettig
- Part IV. Frustrated visions:
- 9. Brother and a comrade: AmÃlcar Cabral as global revolutionary R. Joseph Parrott
- 10. 'Two, three, many Vietnams': Che Guevara's Tricontinental revolutionary vision Michelle D. Paranzino
- 11. From Playa Girón to Luanda: mercenaries and internationalist fighters Eric Covey
- Afterword: patterns and puzzles Mark Atwood Lawrence.
