Empire's Workshop Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism, 2nd Edition | 1.53 MB
Title: Empire's Workshop Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism, 2nd Edition
Author: Greg Grandin
Category: Nonfiction, History, Americas, Latin America, United States, 20th Century, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International
Language: English | 304 Pages | ISBN: 9781429959155
Description:
A groundbreaking examination of Latin America's pivotal role in shaping U.S. imperial ambitions and tactics.
In the quest to understand the Bush administration's aggressive foreign policy, countless books have scoured Roman and British imperial history for precedents. Yet they have largely overlooked the most influential laboratory for America's extraterritorial rule: Latin America.
In Empire's Workshop, historian Greg Grandin uncovers this long-obscured history, tracing U.S. imperial operations from Thomas Jefferson's dreams of an "empire of liberty" in Cuba and Spanish Florida to Ronald Reagan's support for brutal, U.S.-friendly regimes in Central America. He reveals how Latin America served as the genesis for the Bush administration's policies, where key figures like John Negroponte, Elliott Abrams, and Otto Reich first embraced military power to advance free-market economics and enlisted evangelical support for their ventures.
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