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Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans
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Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans in Franklin, TN
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Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans in Franklin, TN
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Winner of the William M. LeoGrande Prize
For over a century, the United States has sought to improve the behavior of the peoples of Latin America. Perceiving their neighbors to the south as underdeveloped and unable to govern themselves, U.S. policy makers have promoted everything from representative democracy and economic development to oral hygiene. But is improvement a progressive impulse to help others, or
realpolitik
in pursuit of a superpower’s interests?
“In this subtle and searing critique of U.S. efforts to ‘uplift’ Latin America, Lars Schoultz challenges us to question the fundamental tenets of the development industry that became entrenched in the U.S. foreign policy bureaucracy over the last century.”
—Piero Gleijeses, author of
Visions of Freedom
“In this masterful work, Lars Schoultz provides a companion and follow-up to his classic
Beneath the United States
…A necessary and rewarding read for scholars and students of U.S. foreign policy and inter-American relations.”
—Renata Keller,
The Americas
For over a century, the United States has sought to improve the behavior of the peoples of Latin America. Perceiving their neighbors to the south as underdeveloped and unable to govern themselves, U.S. policy makers have promoted everything from representative democracy and economic development to oral hygiene. But is improvement a progressive impulse to help others, or
realpolitik
in pursuit of a superpower’s interests?
“In this subtle and searing critique of U.S. efforts to ‘uplift’ Latin America, Lars Schoultz challenges us to question the fundamental tenets of the development industry that became entrenched in the U.S. foreign policy bureaucracy over the last century.”
—Piero Gleijeses, author of
Visions of Freedom
“In this masterful work, Lars Schoultz provides a companion and follow-up to his classic
Beneath the United States
…A necessary and rewarding read for scholars and students of U.S. foreign policy and inter-American relations.”
—Renata Keller,
The Americas
Winner of the William M. LeoGrande Prize
For over a century, the United States has sought to improve the behavior of the peoples of Latin America. Perceiving their neighbors to the south as underdeveloped and unable to govern themselves, U.S. policy makers have promoted everything from representative democracy and economic development to oral hygiene. But is improvement a progressive impulse to help others, or
realpolitik
in pursuit of a superpower’s interests?
“In this subtle and searing critique of U.S. efforts to ‘uplift’ Latin America, Lars Schoultz challenges us to question the fundamental tenets of the development industry that became entrenched in the U.S. foreign policy bureaucracy over the last century.”
—Piero Gleijeses, author of
Visions of Freedom
“In this masterful work, Lars Schoultz provides a companion and follow-up to his classic
Beneath the United States
…A necessary and rewarding read for scholars and students of U.S. foreign policy and inter-American relations.”
—Renata Keller,
The Americas
For over a century, the United States has sought to improve the behavior of the peoples of Latin America. Perceiving their neighbors to the south as underdeveloped and unable to govern themselves, U.S. policy makers have promoted everything from representative democracy and economic development to oral hygiene. But is improvement a progressive impulse to help others, or
realpolitik
in pursuit of a superpower’s interests?
“In this subtle and searing critique of U.S. efforts to ‘uplift’ Latin America, Lars Schoultz challenges us to question the fundamental tenets of the development industry that became entrenched in the U.S. foreign policy bureaucracy over the last century.”
—Piero Gleijeses, author of
Visions of Freedom
“In this masterful work, Lars Schoultz provides a companion and follow-up to his classic
Beneath the United States
…A necessary and rewarding read for scholars and students of U.S. foreign policy and inter-American relations.”
—Renata Keller,
The Americas
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