About Christy Thornton

NBN Episodes hosted by Christy:

Renata Keller, "Mexico's Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2015)

February 7, 2016

Mexico's' Cold War

Renata Keller
Hosted by Christy Thornton

When former Mexican president Lazaro Cardenas traveled to Havana in 1959 to celebrate the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, he stood shoulder to should…

Michelle Chase, "Revolution within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962" (UNC Press, 2015)

February 3, 2016

Revolution within the Revolution

Michelle Chase
Hosted by Christy Thornton

This episode features Michelle Chase, who joins us to discuss her fascinating new book, Revolution Within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in…

Suzanna Reiss, "We Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of U.S. Empire" (U California Press, 2014)

September 14, 2015

We Sell Drugs

Suzanna Reiss
Hosted by Christy Thornton

Though the conventional history of the U.S.-led "War on Drugs" locates the origins of this conflict in a reaction to the domestic culture of excess of…

Alejandro Velasco, "Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela" (U California Press, 2015)

June 28, 2015

Barrio Rising

Alejandro Velasco
Hosted by Christy Thornton

In the mid-1950s, Venezuela's military government razed a massive slum settlement in the heart of Caracas and replaced it with what was at the time on…