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Author : Gilbert Michael Joseph,Catherine LeGrand,Ricardo Donato Salvatore
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0822320991
Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.
Author : Julian Go,Anne L. Foster
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0822330997
DIVInterdisciplinary collection placing the U.S. imperial project in the Philippines within a global, comparative framework./div
Author : James W. Martin
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826359438
The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century—the white “banana cowboy” pushing the edges of a tropical frontier—was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company. This study of the United Fruit Company shows how the business depended on these complicated employees, especially on acclimatizing them to life as tropical Americans.
Author : Andra Chastain,Timothy Lorek
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822987321
Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume escaped these categories. Although they often portrayed themselves as removed from politics, their work contributed to the key geopolitical agendas of the day. The paths traveled by the experts in this volume not only traversed Latin America and connected Latin America to the Global North, they also stretch traditional chronologies of the Latin American Cold War to show how local experts in the early twentieth century laid the foundation for post–World War II development projects, and how Cold War knowledge of science, technology, and the environment continues to impact our world today. These essays unite environmental history and the history of science and technology to argue for the importance of expertise in the Latin American Cold War.
Author : Juan Pablo Scarfi,David M. K. Sheinin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000547320
What is Pan-Americanism? People have been struggling with that problem for over a century. Pan-Americanism is (and has been) an amalgam of diplomatic, political, economic, and cultural projects under the umbrella of hemispheric cooperation and housed institutionally in the Pan-American Union, and later the Organization of American States. But what made Pan-Americanism exceptional? The chapters in this volume suggest that Pan-Americanism played a central and lasting role in structuring inter-American relations, because of the ways in which the movement was reinvented over time, and because the actors who shaped it often redefined and redeployed the term. Through the twentieth century, new appropriations of Pan-Americanism structured, restructured, and redefined inter-American relations. Taken together, these chapters underscore two exciting new shifts in how scholars and others have come to understand Pan-Americanism and inter-American relations. First, Pan-Americanism is increasingly understood not simply as a diplomatic, commercial, and economic forum, but a movement that has included cultural exchange. Second, researchers, political leaders, and the media in several countries have traditionally conceived of Pan-Americanism as a mechanism of US expansionism. This volume reimagines Pan-Americanism as a movement built by actors from all corners of the Americas.
Author : Andrew R. Tillman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137510747
This edited volume revisits the idea of the Western Hemisphere. First articulated by Arthur P. Whitaker in 1954 but with origins in the earlier work of Herbert E. Bolton, it is the idea that "the peoples of this Hemisphere stand in a special relationship to one another which sets them apart from the rest of the word" (Whitaker, 1954). For most scholars of US-Latin American relations, this is a curious concept. They often conceptualize US-Latin American relations through the prism of realism and interventionism. While this volume does not deny that the United States has often acted as an imperial power in Latin America, it is unique in that it challenges scholars to re-think their preconceived notions of inter-American relations and explores the possibility of a common international society for the Americas, especially in the realm of international relations. Unlike most volumes on US-Latin American relations, the book develops its argument in an interdisciplinary manner, bringing together different approaches from disciplines including international relations, global and diplomatic history, human rights studies, and cultural and intellectual history.
Author : Andrae M. Marak,Laura Tuennerman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816521159
The border between the United States and Mexico, established in 1853, passes through the territory of the Tohono O'odham peoples. This revealing book sheds light on Native American history as well as conceptions of femininity, masculinity, and empire.
Author : Quintero Toro, Camilo
Publisher : Ediciones Uniandes-Universidad de los Andes
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789586957960
This book reveals the history behind the trade of Colombian birds as a means of comprehending the scientific, economic and environmental relations between the United States and Colombia from the 1880s to the 1960s. Through the study of the feather trade, scientific expeditions, scientific communities and nature conservation, the author brings to light how international relations and national agendas shaped the study and perception of nature in both countries during those years.
Author : Kristin L. Hoganson,Jay Sexton
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478007432
Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw attention to the breadth of U.S. entanglements with other empires to illuminate the scope and nature of American global power as it reached from the Bering Sea to Australia and East Africa to the Caribbean. With case studies ranging from the 1830s to the late twentieth century, the contributors address topics including diplomacy, governance, anticolonialism, labor, immigration, medicine, religion, and race. Their transimperial approach—whether exemplified in examinations of U.S. steel corporations partnering with British imperialists to build the Ugandan railway or the U.S. reliance on other empires in its governance of the Philippines—transcends histories of interimperial rivalries and conflicts. In so doing, the contributors illuminate the power dynamics of seemingly transnational histories and the imperial origins of contemporary globality. Contributors. Ikuko Asaka, Oliver Charbonneau, Genevieve Clutario, Anne L. Foster, Julian Go, Michel Gobat, Julie Greene, Kristin L. Hoganson, Margaret D. Jacobs, Moon-Ho Jung, Marc-William Palen, Nicole M. Phelps, Jay Sexton, John Soluri, Stephen Tuffnell
Author : Sarah Seymore
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643903914
Before the breakthrough of postcolonial studies, British science-fiction authors already saw the opportunity to discuss political and ethical issues of imperialism by projecting human history and behavior onto the alien 'Other.' In this thesis, the case studies of 15 novels of alien-encounter science fiction illuminate the treatment of colonial and postcolonial concepts - such as colonialism, neo-colonialism, Empire, paternalism, hybridity, mimicry and science and technology - as a means of conquest and resistance. The analysis also shows that the Empire is still a vital background for British science fiction. Thesis. (Series: Anglistik / Amerikanistik; English / American Studies - Vol. 35)
Author : Tyson Reeder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000516630
The Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations provides a comprehensive view of U.S. diplomacy and foreign affairs from the founding to the present. With contributions from recognized experts from around the world, this volume unveils America’s long and complicated history on the world stage. It presents the United States’ evolution from a weak player, even a European pawn, to a global hegemonic leader over the course of two and a half centuries. The contributors offer an expansive vision of U.S. foreign relations—from U.S.-Native American diplomacy in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the post-9/11 war on terror. They shed new light on well-known events and suggest future paths of research, and they capture lesser-known episodes that invite reconsideration of common assumptions about America’s place in the world. Bringing these discussions to a single forum, the book provides a strong reference source for scholars and students who seek to understand the broad themes and changing approaches to the field. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S. history, political science, international relations, conflict resolution, and public policy, amongst other areas.
Author : William S. Cossen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501771019
In Making Catholic America, William S. Cossen shows how Catholic men and women worked to prove themselves to be model American citizens in the decades between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Far from being outsiders in American history, Catholics took command of public life in the early twentieth century, claiming leadership in the growing American nation. They produced their own version of American history and claimed the power to remake the nation in their own image, arguing that they were the country's most faithful supporters of freedom and liberty and that their church had birthed American independence. Making Catholic America offers a new interpretation of American life in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, demonstrating the surprising success of an often-embattled religious group in securing for itself a place in the national community and in profoundly altering what it meant to be an American in the modern world.
Author : John A. Britton
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826353979
In recent decades the Internet has played what may seem to be a unique role in international crises. This book reveals an interesting parallel in the late nineteenth century, when a new communications system based on advances in submarine cable technology and newspaper printing brought information to an excitable mass audience. A network of insulated copper wires connecting North America, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe delivered telegraphed news to front pages with unprecedented speed. Britton surveys the technological innovations and business operations of newspapers in the United States, the building of the international cable network, and the initial enthusiasm for these electronic means of communication to resolve international conflicts. Focusing on United States rivalries with European nations in Latin America, he examines the Spanish American War, in which war correspondents like Richard Harding Davis fed accounts of Spanish atrocities and Cuban heroism into the American press, creating pressure on diplomats and government leaders in the United States and Spain. The new information system also played important roles in the U.S.-British confrontation in the Venezuelan boundary dispute, the building of the Panama Canal, and the establishment of the U.S. empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
Author : Erin Fitz-Henry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137489692
US military presence in twenty-first century in Latin America has recently been characterised by rapidly intensifying militarization alongside under-supported anti-military activism. This book redirects recent debates about twenty-first century social mobilization by taking seriously those who actively resist the social movements in their midst.
Author : Tom Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107121249
Using multinational sources, the book explores how Latin American leaders influenced US policy in the context of asymmetrical power relations.