Virginia Garrard-Burnett

About The Author

Virginia Garrard-Burnett is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Her most recent book is Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efraín Ríos Montt, 1982-1983.

Books by Virginia Garrard-Burnett

Beyond the Eagle's Shadow

New Histories of Latin America's Cold War

Edited by Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Mark Atwood Lawrence and Julio E. Moreno
The dominant tradition in writing about U.S.–Latin American relations during the Cold War views the United States as all-powerful. That perspective, represented in the metaphor “talons of the eagle,” continues to influence much scholarly work down to the present day. The goal of this collection o...
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