America's backyard : the United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror / Grace Livingstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Livingstone, Grace, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin America--Foreign relations--United States.

Latin America.

United States--Foreign relations--Latin America.

United States.

Latin America--Social conditions--19th century.

Latin America--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The United States has shaped Latin American history, condemning it to poverty and inequality by intervening to protect the rich and powerful. America's Backyard tells the story of that intervention. Using newly declassified documents, Grace Livingstone reveals the US role in the darkest periods of Latin American history, including Pinochet's coup in Chile, the Contra War in Nicaragua and the death squads in El Salvador.

Contents:

Introduction

The Monroe Doctrine to the Second World War

The Cold War : the Guatemalan coup and the Cuban Revolution

The Alliance for Progress

The military governments of the 1970s

Reagan and the Central American tragedy

The end of the Cold War, 1989-2001

George W. Bush and the 'War on Terror'

Why US drugs policy doesn't work

Money, multinationals and misery

Coca-Cola, cartoons and caricature

Postscript

Appendix A: US military interventions in Latin America in the twentieth century

Appendix B: Latin American dictators who took training courses at the School of the Americas.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786612304088

9781350218420

1350218421

9781848136113

1848136110

9781780326566

1780326564

9781282304086

1282304089

9781848132153

1848132158

OCLC:

520917595