Beneath the United States : : A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America / / Lars Schoultz.
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...
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Schoultz, Lars, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Beneath the United States : A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America / Lars Schoultz. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©1998 1 online resource (496 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- 1 Encountering Latin America -- 2 Acquiring Northern Mexico -- 3 Struggling over Slavery in the Caribbean -- 4 Ending an Era: Regional Hegemony over a Defective People -- 5 Beginning a New Era: The Imperial Mentality -- 6 Testing the Imperial Waters: Confronting Chile -- 7 Excluding Great Britain: The Venezuela Boundary Dispute -- 8 Establishing an Empire: Cuba and the War with Spain -- 9 Creating a Country, Building a Canal -- 10 Chastising Chronic Wrongdoing -- 11 Providing Benevolent Supervision: Dollar Diplomacy -- 12 Continuing to Help in the Most Practical Way Possible -- 13 Removing the Marines, Installing the Puppets -- 14 Establishing the Foundations of Honorable Intercourse -- 15 Becoming a Good Neighbor -- 16 Attacking Dictatorships -- 17 Combatting Communism with Friendly Dictators -- 18 Combatting Communism with Economic Development -- 19 Two Centuries Later -- Sources -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022) Politicians United States Attitudes. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674043282?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674043282 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674043282/original |
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