Beneath the United States: A History of U. S. Policy Toward Latin AmericaHarvard University Press, 1998 M06 15 - 496 páginas 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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 87
Página xvii
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Página 5
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Página 22
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Página 25
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Página 29
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Contenido
II | 1 |
III | 14 |
IV | 39 |
V | 59 |
VI | 78 |
VII | 91 |
VIII | 107 |
IX | 125 |
XVI | 253 |
XVII | 272 |
XVIII | 290 |
XIX | 316 |
XX | 332 |
XXI | 349 |
XXIII | 367 |
XXIV | 389 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America Lars Schoultz Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
Beneath the United States: a history of U.S. policy toward Latin America Lars Schoultz Vista de fragmentos - 1998 |
Términos y frases comunes
administration administration's Adolf Berle Ambassador American annexation April Argentine Assistant Secretary August Bayard Blaine Britain British Bryan Buchanan Bunau-Varilla Cabot canal Caribbean Central America Chile Cleveland Colombia Commission Committee Communist conference Cong Congressional Record Cuba Cuban December Democrats Department Despatches Diary Díaz diplomatic Dollar Diplomacy Dominican Republic economic election Elihu Root envoys European February force foreign policy FRUS Guatemala Haiti Henry Hoover Huntington Wilson Instructions issue January Jefferson John Quincy Adams July June Kellogg Knox Latin America leaders March Marcy McKinley Memorandum ment Messages and Papers Mexican Mexico military million Monroe Doctrine National Navy negotiate Nicaragua November October Olney Panama Peru Platt Platt Amendment policy toward Latin political President Reel relations reported Republican Senate September Sess Spain Spanish Stimson Taft territory Texas Theodore Roosevelt tion treaty U.S. citizens U.S. Congress U.S. minister U.S. officials U.S. policy United Venezuela Washington Whigs William wrote York