Empire's workshop

Latin America, the United States, and the rise of the new imperalism

Paperback, 292 pages

Langue : English

Publié 8 août 2007 par Metropolitan Books.

ISBN :
978-0-8050-8323-1
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Numéro OCLC :
141192784

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"Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is absolutely crucial to understanding our present."―Naomi Klein, author of No Logo

The British and Roman empires are often invoked as precedents to the Bush administration's aggressive foreign policy. But America's imperial identity was actually shaped much closer to home. In a brilliant excavation of long-obscured history, Empire's Workshop shows how Latin America has functioned as a proving ground for American strategies and tactics overseas. Historian Greg Grandin follows the United States' imperial operations from Jefferson's aspirations for an "empire of liberty" in Cuba and Spanish Florida to Reagan's support for brutally oppressive but U.S.-friendly regimes in Central America. He traces the origins of Bush's current policies back to Latin America, where many of the administration's leading lights first embraced the deployment of military power to advance free market economics and enlisted the …

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Sujets

  • Americans -- Latin America -- History
  • Imperialism
  • Latin America -- Relations -- United States
  • United States -- Relations -- Latin America
  • United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001- -- Philosophy