Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author Name: Greg Grandin
- Book Genre: Dystopia, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult
- ISBN # 9780062676368
- Date of Publication: 2018-3-6
- PDF File Size: 1.5 MB
- EPUB File Size: 1 MB
AN EYE-OPENING EXAMINATION OF LATIN
AMERICA’S ROLE AS PROVING GROUND
FOR U.S. IMPERIAL STRATEGIES AND
TACTICS
IN RECENT YEARS, ONE BOOK AFTER ANOTHER HAS sought to
take the measure of the Bush administration’s aggressive foreign policy. In
their search for precedents, these books invoke the Roman and British
empires and draw lessons from postwar reconstructions of Germany and
Japan. Yet they consistently ignore the one place where the United States
has had its most intimate imperial experience: Latin America.
An original and brilliant excavation of a long-obscured history, Empire’s
Workshop is the first book to show how Latin America has functioned as an
indispensable laboratory for America’s rise to world power. Historian Greg
Grandin follows the United States’s imperial operations, from Thomas
Jefferson’s aspirations for an “empire of liberty” that would govern Cuba
and Spanish Florida to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy,
which taught the U.S. how to use “soft power” more effectively and
provided a blueprint for its postwar European and Asian “empire by
invitation.”
Empire’s Workshop is also the first book to examine how a preemptive
foreign policy in Latin America, which included sponsoring coups, deathsquad states, and paramilitary insurgencies, has transformed America’s
domestic politics, forging today’s ruling coalition of neoconservatives,
Christian evangelicals, free marketeers, and nationalists. The road to war in
Iraq, Grandin provocatively argues, can be traced back to the 1970s and
1980s, when an increasingly internationalist New Right turned to Latin
America to avenge Vietnam, and in so doing rehabilitated militarism as a
legitimate instrument of state and made free-market capitalism the moral
core of American purpose abroad.
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