Latin America and the First World War

Stefan Rinke is Professor of Latin American History at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and a former Einstein Research Fellow. He is speaker of the German-Mexican Graduate School 'Between Spaces', a cooperative doctoral program with leading Mexican universities. He is the author of twelve books, many of which have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese. Rinke is a member of the board of the journals Geschichte und Gesellschaft and Iberoamericana, and co-editor of the Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit.

• 1. The global context before 1914; 2. Neutrality under pressure, 1914–17; 3. In the wake of war, 1917; 4. Turbulent paths into a 'New Era', 1918/19; 5. The demise of a world; 6. Nation and trans-nation.

'Stefan Rinke's wonderful book illustrates how political, economic, and social upheavals of war and revolution washed over Latin America and permanently changed the region's landscape. This book of remarkable breadth is full of insights onto how peripheral areas of the world coped with the European crisis. It captures what a global crisis looked like from distant shores.' Jeremy I. Adelman, Princeton University