Greg Grandin

Empire's Workshop (eBook, ePUB)

Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

As much of Latin America now rebels against U.S. domination, Grandin poses a vital question: If Washington has failed to bring prosperity and democracy to its own backyard "workshop," what chance does it have of doing so for the world?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429959155
• Artikelnr.: 39957050

Autorenporträt

Greg Grandin is the author of The End of the Myth, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His widely acclaimed books also include The Last Colonial Massacre, Kissinger's Shadow, and The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge awards in American history. He is Peter V. and C. Van Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.