Empire, I Think Is Really Important

This supplemental episode is the recording of a Twitter Space we just recorded with our friends, Professors Alexander Aviña and Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt.  What was originally supposed to be a pretty informal meeting became a nearly 1 hour and 40 minute discussion of coups, oil, and oil nationalization!  Enjoy!

Alexander Aviña is historian at Arizona State University, and is author of the book Specters of Revolution:  Peasant Guerrilla in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (Oxford University Press, 2014, https://alexanderavina.com/specters-of-revolution/ ).  Listen to the episode we did with him on Cold War Latin America here: https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/alex-avia 

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt is a historian at California State University, Stanislas.  You can (and should!) get The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq from Stanford University Press https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26330 .  Listen to the episode we did with him on Coups, Oil, the CIA, and Arab Nationalism here: https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/coups-oil-the-cia-and-arab-nationalism-in-iraq-w-brandon-wolfe-hunnicutt 

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