Making the Americas
Subtitle: the United States and Latin America from the age of revolutions to the era of globalization
By: Thomas F. O'Brien.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780826342003
Subjects: Latin America -- Civilization -- American influences.; Latin America -- History.; Latin America -- Relations -- United States.; United States -- Relations -- Latin America.
Description: "Synthesizing a broad range of international relations scholarship, including perspectives from gender, race, and cultural studies, O'Brien offers a sweeping history of the Americas that ranges from the adventures of eighteenth-century whaling men to the contemporary struggle over globalization. As a part of this study, the author explains how the responses of Latin Americans to Americanization have varied from the vehement rejection of U.S. economic dominance to embracing as well as reconfiguring the icons of American consumer culture." "O'Brien's goal is to provide readers with a nuanced understanding of how the people of the Americas have shaped their own history and influenced the development of U.S. economic, strategic, and cultural power in the world today."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From encounters to expansion, 1776-1861; title: The road to empire, 1861-1899; title: The civilizing empire, 1899-1917; title: Defending the empire, 1917-1929; title: From depression to war, 1929-1945; title: Nationalism, communism, and modernization, 1946-1958; title: Defending the mission of modernization, 1959-1969; title: Dictatorship and revolution, 1970-1979; title: Insurgency and insolvency, 1980-1992; title: Globalization and its discontents, 1993-2006.