Tucson Festival of Books

History, Conflict and the Americas


In this session, two historians will discuss the critical impact of Latin America on global events from earliest contact and abolition of slavery to the Cuban missile crisis and the Cold War.


Panelists
Carrie Gibson

Carrie Gibson is the author of three acclaimed works of history: "The Great Resistance," "Empire’s Crossroads," and "El Norte." She received a Ph.D fr.om Cambridge University, focusing on the Spanish Caribbean in the era of the Haitian Revolution, and has worked as a journalist for the Guardian and BBC....

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Renata Keller

Renata Keller is a historian of Latin America and the Cold War, and the author of the newly published "The Fate of the Americas," the first hemispheric history of the Cuban missile crisis. Her novel "Mexico's Cold War," won SECOLAS’s Alfred B....

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Books:
The Great Resistance
The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas
Carrie Gibson
History / Biography
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
January 2026
ISBN 9780802165497
624 pages
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The Fate of the Americas
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War
Renata Keller
History / Biography
University of North Carolina Press
January 2025
ISBN 9781469689432
336 pages
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