The Open Veins of the Postcolonial

Inocencia Mata is professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon. Her most recent publications include O Papel do Cidadao em Tempos de (Des)Encantos (2018) and Discursos Memorialistas Africanos e a Construcao da Historia (2018). Iolanda Evora is associate researcher at the Center for African and Development Studies at the University of Lisbon, and most recently author of Diaspora cabo-verdiana (2016).

Brenes has significantly added to our understanding of the political economy of the Cold War and the reshaping of American values from the New Deal to the contemporary moment. A truly engrossing and important story told with depth and skill.--Mitchell B. Lerner, author of The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy For Might and Right will appeal not only to Cold War scholars but to anyone interested in the history of twentieth-century politics, liberalism or conservatism, and the history of U.S. foreign policy. A must-read.--Michael Koncewicz, author of They Said No to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President's Abuses of Power