The nineteenth century context -- Boundaries, war and the canal -- Interventions, occupations and commerce -- Cultural encounters -- Challenging the United States -- Depression and global conflict -- Renewed intervention and revolution -- ...
Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History brings together the most important documents on the history of the relationship between the United States and Latin America from the...
This book offers a framework for critical insight into artworks dealing with crucial social, industrial, or ecological concerns, and also for interrogating the very categories and terminologies used to construct the notion of Latin America.
The United States and Latin America
This collection of original essays focuses on the dynamics of the contemporary system of inter-American relations, with emphasis on changes in the hemispheric political economy, the control exercised by the United States over the behavior ...
Using short historical vignettes, Britta and Russell Crandall chart the course of inter‑American relations from 1776 to the present, highlighting the roles that individuals and groups of soldiers, intellectuals, private citizens, and ...
The new agenda has increased pressure to eliminate the U.S. embargo on Cuba and includes Latin America's growing ties to other regions. The 15 essays here, by U.S., Latin American, and European scholars, discuss these issues.
Serra talked with Secretaries Baker and Mosbacher – both Texans. Baker wrote in his memoirs that “even while we had been negotiating the Canadian FTA we had thought about the benefits of expanding it to a continent-wide free-trade zone.
Drawing on the research and experience of fifteen internationally recognized Latin America scholars, this insightful text presents an overview of inter-American relations during the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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.