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The epilogue analyzes the book’s approach to central concerns of the Cold War, like global poverty, from the perspective of individuals, such as the Peace Corps Volunteers, who occupied an intermediate position. While not officially US state agents, volunteers maintained relatively formal links to the government through the institution of the Peace Corps. The intimacy of their testimonies as well as the autonomy of their daily activities contributes to the decentralization of narratives about the global Cold War.
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Fritz Fischer, Making Them Like Us. Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998).
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Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 3.
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Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War: A World History (New York: Basic Books, 2017).
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Gilbert Joseph and Daniela Spenser (eds.) In from the Cold. Latin America’s New Encounter with The Cold War (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008); Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney and Fabio Lanza (eds.) De-Centering Cold War History. Local and Global Change (Routledge: London, 2013).
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Gilbert Joseph and Daniela Spenser (eds.) In from the Cold…, 8.
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Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes. Travel Writing and Transculturation (London: Routledge, 1992), 6–7.
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Giovanni Levi, “Sobre microhistoria,” Peter Burke (ed.), Formas de hacer historia (Madrid: Alianza, 1993), 119–143.
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Letter from Dorothy Woodrof to Sargent Shriver, New York, January 18, 1963, National Archives, College Park (hereafter NARA), Record Group (hereafter RG) 490, Correspondence of the Peace Corps Director Relating to Latin America, 1961–1965, box 2, folder “chron. file February 1963.”
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“Chile Evaluation Report, April 28–May 22, 1963,” NARA, RG 490, Peace Corps Evaluations, 1963, box 3, folder “Chile,” 93.
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Memorandum from William Moffett to Jane Campbell, December 3, 1964, NARA, RG 490, Correspondence of the Peace Corps Director Relating to Latin America 1961–1965, box 5, folder “Chile.”
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Hugo Fazio-Vengoa, “La historia global y su conveniencia para el estudio del pasado y del presente,” Historia Crítica, Bogota, Special Edition, November 2009: 302.
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Quoted in Michael Latham, Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 109.
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Purcell, F. (2019). Epilogue: Decentering Cold War Narratives Using Peace Corps Volunteer’s Accounts. In: The Peace Corps in South America. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24808-6_7
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