Books by Marc Becker

This clear text extends our understanding of revolutions with critical narrative analysis of key case studies. Becker analyzes revolutions through the lens of participants and explores the sociopolitical conditions that led to a revolutionary situation, the differing responses to those conditions, and the outcomes of the political changes.

Marc Becker draws on recently released US government surveillance documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement organizing efforts during the 1950s, showing how the local patterns and dynamics that shaped the development of the Ecuadorian left could be found throughout Latin American during the cold war.

The largely unknown story of the FBI's surveillance operations in Latin America during the 1940s provides new insights into leftist organizations and the nature of the U.S.'s imperial ambitions in the western hemisphere.