Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
Published by Metropolitan Books
paperback | 304 pages
5/1/2007 | US$17.00 [price may vary]
ISBN: 0805083235
In a brilliant excavation of long-obscured history, Empire’s Workshop shows how Latin America has functioned as a proving ground for American strategies and tactics overseas. Historian Greg Grandin follows the United States’ imperial operations from Jefferson’s aspirations for an “empire of liberty” in Cuba and Spanish Florida to Reagan’s support for brutally oppressive but U.S.-friendly regimes in Central America. He traces the origins of Bush’s [and now Obama’s] current policies back to Latin America, where many of the administration’s leading lights first embraced the deployment of military power to advance free market economics and enlisted the evangelical movement in support of their ventures.
This is a brutal and eye-opening history of American foreign policy in Latin America, which laid the groundwork for American action in other countries.
Interestingly, Hugo Chavez said, “What is happening today in Latin America? To answer this question, read Empire’s Workshop.”
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