Author: Lars Schoultz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256042
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
In this sweeping history of United States policy toward Latin America, Lars Schoultz shows that the United States has always perceived Latin America as a fundamentally inferior neighbor, unable to manage its affairs and stubbornly underdeveloped. This perception of inferiority was apparent from the beginning. John Quincy Adams, who first established diplomatic relations with Latin America, believed that Hispanics were "lazy, dirty, nasty...a parcel of hogs." In the early nineteenth century, ex-President John Adams declared that any effort to implant democracy in Latin America was "as absurd as similar plans would be to establish democracies among the birds, beasts, and fishes." Drawing on extraordinarily rich archival sources, Schoultz, one of the country's foremost Latin America scholars, shows how these core beliefs have not changed for two centuries. We have combined self-interest with a "civilizing mission"--a self-abnegating effort by a superior people to help a substandard civilization overcome its defects. William Howard Taft felt the way to accomplish this task was "to knock their heads together until they should maintain peace," while in 1959 CIA Director Allen Dulles warned that "the new Cuban officials had to be treated more or less like children." Schoultz shows that the policies pursued reflected these deeply held convictions. While political correctness censors the expression of such sentiments today, the actions of the United States continue to assume the political and cultural inferiority of Latin America. Schoultz demonstrates that not until the United States perceives its southern neighbors as equals can it anticipate a constructive hemispheric alliance.
Beneath the United States
Author: Lars Schoultz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256042
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
In this sweeping history of United States policy toward Latin America, Lars Schoultz shows that the United States has always perceived Latin America as a fundamentally inferior neighbor, unable to manage its affairs and stubbornly underdeveloped. This perception of inferiority was apparent from the beginning. John Quincy Adams, who first established diplomatic relations with Latin America, believed that Hispanics were "lazy, dirty, nasty...a parcel of hogs." In the early nineteenth century, ex-President John Adams declared that any effort to implant democracy in Latin America was "as absurd as similar plans would be to establish democracies among the birds, beasts, and fishes." Drawing on extraordinarily rich archival sources, Schoultz, one of the country's foremost Latin America scholars, shows how these core beliefs have not changed for two centuries. We have combined self-interest with a "civilizing mission"--a self-abnegating effort by a superior people to help a substandard civilization overcome its defects. William Howard Taft felt the way to accomplish this task was "to knock their heads together until they should maintain peace," while in 1959 CIA Director Allen Dulles warned that "the new Cuban officials had to be treated more or less like children." Schoultz shows that the policies pursued reflected these deeply held convictions. While political correctness censors the expression of such sentiments today, the actions of the United States continue to assume the political and cultural inferiority of Latin America. Schoultz demonstrates that not until the United States perceives its southern neighbors as equals can it anticipate a constructive hemispheric alliance.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256042
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
In this sweeping history of United States policy toward Latin America, Lars Schoultz shows that the United States has always perceived Latin America as a fundamentally inferior neighbor, unable to manage its affairs and stubbornly underdeveloped. This perception of inferiority was apparent from the beginning. John Quincy Adams, who first established diplomatic relations with Latin America, believed that Hispanics were "lazy, dirty, nasty...a parcel of hogs." In the early nineteenth century, ex-President John Adams declared that any effort to implant democracy in Latin America was "as absurd as similar plans would be to establish democracies among the birds, beasts, and fishes." Drawing on extraordinarily rich archival sources, Schoultz, one of the country's foremost Latin America scholars, shows how these core beliefs have not changed for two centuries. We have combined self-interest with a "civilizing mission"--a self-abnegating effort by a superior people to help a substandard civilization overcome its defects. William Howard Taft felt the way to accomplish this task was "to knock their heads together until they should maintain peace," while in 1959 CIA Director Allen Dulles warned that "the new Cuban officials had to be treated more or less like children." Schoultz shows that the policies pursued reflected these deeply held convictions. While political correctness censors the expression of such sentiments today, the actions of the United States continue to assume the political and cultural inferiority of Latin America. Schoultz demonstrates that not until the United States perceives its southern neighbors as equals can it anticipate a constructive hemispheric alliance.
The Latin American Policy of the United States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Readings in the Latin American Policy of the United States
Author: Thomas L. Karnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In the Name of Democracy
Author: Thomas Carothers
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520356691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive, even-handed examination of U.S. policy in Latin America during the Reagan era. Drawing on interviews with U.S. officials and his own perspective as a former State Department lawyer, Thomas Carothers sheds new light on the much-discussed U.S. involvements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama and turns up varied and often unexpected findings in less-studied countries such as Bolivia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Chile. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520356691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive, even-handed examination of U.S. policy in Latin America during the Reagan era. Drawing on interviews with U.S. officials and his own perspective as a former State Department lawyer, Thomas Carothers sheds new light on the much-discussed U.S. involvements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama and turns up varied and often unexpected findings in less-studied countries such as Bolivia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Chile. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
United States-Latin American Relations
Author: University of New Mexico. School of Inter-American Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
U.s. Policy Toward Latin America
Author: Harold Molineu
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Latin American Policy of the United States
Author: Samuel Flagg Bemis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Money, marines, and mission
Author: Dick Steward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Includes index.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Includes index.
Herbert Hoover's Latin-American Policy
Author: Alexander DeConde
Publisher: New York : Octagon Books, 1970 [c1951]
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Octagon Books, 1970 [c1951]
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The United States and Latin America
Author: Gordon Connell-Smith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description