Latin America and the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latin America and the United States write by Robert H. Holden. This book was released on 2011. Latin America and the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brings together the most important documents on the history of the relationship between the United States and Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. This second edition features updated selections on current trends, including key new documents on immigration, regional integration, indigenous political movements, democratization, and economic policy.
Beneath the United States
Beneath the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beneath the United States write by Lars Schoultz. This book was released on 1998-06-15. Beneath the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this sweeping history of United States policy toward Latin America, Lars Schoultz shows that the United States has always perceived Latin America as a fundamentally inferior neighbor, unable to manage its affairs and stubbornly underdeveloped. This perception of inferiority was apparent from the beginning. John Quincy Adams, who first established diplomatic relations with Latin America, believed that Hispanics were "lazy, dirty, nasty...a parcel of hogs." In the early nineteenth century, ex-President John Adams declared that any effort to implant democracy in Latin America was "as absurd as similar plans would be to establish democracies among the birds, beasts, and fishes." Drawing on extraordinarily rich archival sources, Schoultz, one of the country's foremost Latin America scholars, shows how these core beliefs have not changed for two centuries. We have combined self-interest with a "civilizing mission"--a self-abnegating effort by a superior people to help a substandard civilization overcome its defects. William Howard Taft felt the way to accomplish this task was "to knock their heads together until they should maintain peace," while in 1959 CIA Director Allen Dulles warned that "the new Cuban officials had to be treated more or less like children." Schoultz shows that the policies pursued reflected these deeply held convictions. While political correctness censors the expression of such sentiments today, the actions of the United States continue to assume the political and cultural inferiority of Latin America. Schoultz demonstrates that not until the United States perceives its southern neighbors as equals can it anticipate a constructive hemispheric alliance.
America's Backyard
America's Backyard - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Backyard write by Grace Livingstone. This book was released on 2013-04-04. America's Backyard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United States has shaped Latin American history, condemning it to poverty and inequality by intervening to protect the rich and powerful. America’s Backyard tells the story of that intervention. Using newly declassified documents, Grace Livingstone reveals the US role in the darkest periods of Latin American history, including Pinochet’s coup in Chile, the Contra War in Nicaragua and the death squads in El Salvador. She shows how George W Bush’s administration used the War on Terror as a new pretext for intervention; how it tried to destabilise leftwing governments and push back the ‘pink tide’ washing across the Americas. America’s Backyard also includes chapters on drugs, economy and culture. It explains why US drug policy has caused widespread environmental damage yet failed to reduce the supply of cocaine, and it looks at the US economic stake in Latin America and the strategies of the big corporations. Today Latin Americans are demanding respect and an end to the Washington Consensus. Will the White House listen?
Latin America Confronts the United States
Latin America Confronts the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latin America Confronts the United States write by Thomas Stephen Long. This book was released on 2015-11-19. Latin America Confronts the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using multinational sources, the book explores how Latin American leaders influenced US policy in the context of asymmetrical power relations.
The United States and Latin America in the Twentieth Century
The United States and Latin America in the Twentieth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The United States and Latin America in the Twentieth Century write by Jeffrey Taffet. This book was released on 2017-04-13. The United States and Latin America in the Twentieth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
