Making the Americas The United States and Latin America from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization

Name: Making the Americas The United States and Latin America from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization
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ISBN: 9780826342003

ISBN-10: 0826342000

ISBN-13: 9780826342003

Edition: 2007

Authors: Thomas F. O'Brien, Lyman L. Johnson

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Americans' belief in their economic, political, and cultural superiority launched them on a mission to transform Latin America that has evolved into a global process of Americanization. From corporate and philanthropic initiatives to military interventions, Americans motivated by self-interest and idealism sought to reshape Latin America and gave birth to the American driven process of globalization. Synthesizing a broad range of international relations scholarship, including perspectives from gender, race, and cultural studies, O'Brien offers a sweeping history of the Americas that ranges from the adventures of eighteenth-century whaling men to the contemporary struggle over…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 7/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




From encounters to expansion, 1776-1861



The road to empire, 1861-1899



The civilizing empire, 1899-1917



Defending the empire, 1917-1929



From Depression to war, 1929-1945



Nationalism, communism, and modernization, 1946-1958



Defending the mission of modernization, 1959-1969



Dictatorship and revolution, 1970-1979



Insurgency and insolvency, 1980-1992



Globalization and its discontents, 1993-2006