“A provocative and eclectic introduction to the complexities of early Latin American diplomacy and its history.”—ReVista
“A welcome new collection that challenges the notion that the League of Nations was, as it has long been regarded, an exclusively European organization, relevant only to those who study a European metropole and its colonies.”—H-Net Reviews
“Alan McPherson and Yannick Wehrli, coeditors of Beyond Geopolitics: New Histories of Latin America at the League of Nations, break new ground with a discussion of Latin America’s participation in the organization’s technical and social committees.”—Latin American Research Review
“Latin America’s largely forgotten participation in the League of Nations was an opportunity for the countries of the southern part of the Western Hemisphere to participate in an international organization outside the dominating presence of the United States. This edited volume draws from previously unstudied archival records of the League of Nations to provide new insights into the ideas, politics, and policies of the Latin American countries in the 1920s and 1930s.”—John A. Britton, author of Cables, Crises, and the Press: The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the Americas, 1866–1903
“By exploring not just the political dimension of Latin America’s engagement with the League of Nations but also the importance for the region of the organization’s efforts to promote international cooperation across a range of fields, this collection is a welcome addition to a growing literature that looks beyond the traditionally relatively narrow focus of diplomatic history to examine other aspects of the relationships between states and societies. The volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the interwar world order and of Latin America’s place in it.”—Halbert Jones, author of The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State
