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Paperback. Synthesizing a range of international relations scholarship, including perspectives from gender, race, and cultural studies, this title offers the history of the Americas that ranges from the adventures of eighteenth-century whaling men to the contemporary struggle over globalization. Series Editor(s): Johnson, Lyman L. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 376 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JFFS; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 585.
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 globalization. As a part of this ... Read more
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 globalization. As a part of this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Making the Americas: The United States and Latin America from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826342003
SKU
V9780826342003
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About Paperback
Thomas F. O'Brien is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He is the author of The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America (UNM Press) and The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945.
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