Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States

(Duke University Press) After Augusto Pinochet came to power in 1973, Chile became the world’s biggest grape exporter. Integrating U.S. and Latin American history, Tinsman takes an in-depth look at the consequences of the Chilean fruit industry’s rise in politics, labor, and gender relations in Chile and the United States. Tinsman also is the author of Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973. She is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.