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9780826342003

Making the Americas

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  • ISBN13:

    9780826342003

  • ISBN10:

    0826342000

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-05-01
  • Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

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Summary

The author, an expert on business interests in Latin America, examines U.S. efforts, spanning two centuries, to impose economic dominance on the peoples of the Americas and the Latin American responses to these policies.

Author Biography

Thomas F. O'Brien is a professor of history at the University of Houston.

Table of Contents

From encounters to expansion, 1776-1861p. 15
The road to empire, 1861-1899p. 51
The civilizing empire, 1899-1917p. 75
Defending the empire, 1917-1929p. 97
From Depression to war, 1929-1945p. 129
Nationalism, communism, and modernization, 1946-1958p. 179
Defending the mission of modernization, 1959-1969p. 209
Dictatorship and revolution, 1970-1979p. 241
Insurgency and insolvency, 1980-1992p. 267
Globalization and its discontents, 1993-2006p. 287
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