“Buying into the Regime is a fascinating history of grapes and consumption during the Cold War, focusing specifically on the close relationship between the United States and Chile….That the book consciously avoids simple answers makes it an especially welcome addition to the literature on the Cold War in Chile.” — Gregory Weeks, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"An exceptionally rich work that will undoubtedlybbecome a staple of graduate-level food, labor, and gender courses for years to come." — Bartow J. Elmore, Journal of American History
"In this compelling work, Heidi Tinsman has opened up new ways to conceptualize transnationalism in history.... with Tinsman’s insights in hand, contemporary movement organizers can hope to avoid some of the mistakes of their predecessors." — Eileen Findlay, Hispanic American Historical Review
"Based on extensive field work and impressive archival research, Buying into the Regime is a creative history of the Chilean grape and fruit industry and its relations to U.S. institutions, markets, and politics from the 1920s into the twenty-first century." — Brian Loveman, American Historical Review
“[A] brilliant and idiosyncratic addition to the burgeoning literature of commodity history…. Tinsman has written a sweeping and provocative book that encourages us to reframe our views of Chilean and US history.” — Jason M. Colby, Canadian Journal of History
"Given the fluid writing style and the Californian/Chilean geographic setting encountered in this historical case study, one could easily imagine that the book under review is the latest installment of acclaimed Chilean novelist Isabel Allende's saga of the adventures of Eliza Sommers and her descendants. Buying into the Regime, however, is so much more than a well-written novel.... Students and scholars of US and Chilean gender, labor, and commodity history will benefit from reading this path-breaking study." — Michael R. Hall, Journal of Third World Studies
"I wholeheartedly recommend this book to those interested in comparative Latin American and US history, social movements, and rural and gender studies." — Christobal Kay, Journal of Latin American Studies
“Nonspecialists, graduate students, and undergraduates will read this important book easily and with enthusiasm. Specialists in Chilean, Latin American, US, labor, gender, and transnational history will agree that Buying into the Regime is on the cutting edge of historical research. It is a brilliant example of linking local actors to larger historical processes, both within national borders and beyond them.” — Brandi A. Townsend, History: Reviews of New Books
"This book is recommended for use in courses on gender and labor in the United States and Latin America." — Colonial Latin American Historical Review
"Buying into the Regime is an admirably researched, well-conceived, and creative work that should find a broad audience." — Timothy J. Henderson, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
"With grapes as her medium, Tinsman sheds new light on two complex relationships: that between the United States and Chile, and that between consumerism and social justice in both nations....Scholars of Chile, the United States, food, gender, and consumption will each learn a great deal from Buying into the Regime." — Tore C. Olsson, The Latin Americanist
"[The scope of her work spans a wide range of geographic space and academic disciplines in order to provide a democratic, comprehensive, and transnational view of the production and consumption of a commodity.... Her in-depth historical analysis from Latin America offers transnational lessons that are applicable to current and future processes of globalization." — Andrea Delgado, Ameriquests
"Buying into the Regime is a path breaking study of gender, labor, and consumption in Chile and the United States. Heidi Tinsman masterfully integrates U.S. and Latin American history. Her book is not only a major contribution to Chilean history; it should also be required reading for U.S. historians and their graduate students. I anticipate that it will work beautifully in undergraduate courses as well." — Julie Greene, author of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
"Linking production, consumption, and social conflict in grape production in California and Chile, Heidi Tinsman traces historical connections and interesting disconnects between the industries and social movements in both countries. United Farm Worker support for undocumented workers in California did not expand into an internationalist consciousness, while the anticonsumerism of anti-Pinochet activists overlooked the contradictory combination of empowerment and exploitation experienced by female fruit workers. A fascinating example of the benefits of a transnational approach." — Florencia E. Mallon, editor of Decolonizing Native Histories: Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas