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human rights; continental revolution or nationally-bound militancy). These minor criticisms should not hide the fact that Marchesi’s monograph constitutes a major contribution to a nascent, promising historiographical field. The author consolidates a rising but still marginal tendency in Latin American scholarship that breaks not only from nationally-centred narratives, but also from a transnational history of Latin America mainly written through its relations with the United States. In addition, and contrary to many cultural approaches to the Global 1960s, Marchesi always analyses the circulation of ideas in light of specific contexts. There is no doubt that Latin America’s Radical Left is already a benchmark for specialists of the Latin American Global 1960s. Let us hope that this book – and hopefully, the ones that will follow and appear in English translation – will also allow a geographical decentring of the currently dominant historiographical gaze on the Global 1960s.