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  • Beneath the United States

    A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America

    by Lars Schoultz ...
    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 ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The United States and Latin America in the 1990s

    Beyond the Cold War

    Edited by Jonathan Hartlyn, Lars Schoultz, Augusto Varas ...
    “A comprehensive examination of both unresolved tensions in inter-American relations and the specific problems facing U.S. and Latin American policymakers in the 1990s.” — American Political Science Review“These well-integrated essays analyze the key issues in contemporary inter-American relations very clearly. The authors address their themes with subtlety and insight, in this first overall ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • In Their Own Best Interest

    A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans

    by Lars Schoultz ...
    Winner of the William M. LeoGrande PrizeFor over a century, the United States has sought to improve the behavior of the peoples of Latin America. Perceiving their neighbors to the south as underdeveloped and unable to govern themselves, U.S. policy makers have promoted everything from representative democracy and economic development to oral hygiene. But is improvement a progressive impulse to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Populist Challenge

    Argentine Electoral Behavior in the Postwar Era

    by Lars Schoultz ...
    Series Book 58 - The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science
    Schoultz examines the fundamental political cleavage between classical liberalism and the populist Peronist political movements in Argentina, identifying the socioeconomic structural features that led to this division and focusing on changes in social class composition that accompanied major demographic shifts and alterations in economic activity. He dominated the electoral process that liberals ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • That Infernal Little Cuban Republic

    The United States and the Cuban Revolution

    by Lars Schoultz ...
    Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that despite the overwhelming advantage in size and power that the United States enjoys over its ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal

    by Julie Greene ...
    A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of viewThe Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far more remarkable element of the historic enterprise: the tens of thousands of workingmen and workingwomen who traveled from all around the world to ... Read more

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  • A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Alan McPherson ...
    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions and interventions in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day.Engages in debates about the economic, military, political, and cultural motives that shaped U.S. interventions in Cuba, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

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    The Life of Theodore Roosevelt

    by David Key ...
    Rough Rider is a snapshot study of the significant career of President Theodore Roosevelt. Partly biographical sketch and partly analysis, the book provides an overview of his actions, ideals, and written works, highlighting important events from Roosevelt's early public life, his presidency, and later career. David Key sees Roosevelt as a statesman who well understood how to create his own ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Doing Business with the Dictators

    A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944

    by Paul J. Dosal ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    The United Fruit Company (UFCO) developed an unprecedented relationship with Guatemala in the first half of this century. By 1944, UFCO owned 566,000 acres, employed 20,000 people, and operated 96% of Guatemala's 719 miles of railroad, making the multinational corporation Guatemala's largest private landowner and biggest employer. In Doing Business with the Dictators, Paul J. Dosal shows how UFCO ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Shmoop US History Guide: The Spanish-American War

    by Shmoop ...
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  • No Higher Law

    American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere since 1776

    by Brian Loveman ...
    Dismantling the myths of United States isolationism and exceptionalism, No Higher Law is a sweeping history and analysis of American policy toward the Western Hemisphere and Latin America from independence to the present. From the nation’s earliest days, argues Brian Loveman, U.S. leaders viewed and treated Latin America as a crucible in which to test foreign policy and from which to expand ... Read more

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  • A People's History of the United States

    by Howard Zinn ...
    THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." –Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, a landmark work of social history, chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official ... Read more

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