In Their Own Best Interest - A History of the U.s. Effort to Improve Latin Americans

Informationen zum Autor Lars Schoultz is William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of five books on U.S. policy toward Latin America. Schoultz has been President of the Latin American Studies Association and has held research fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright-Hays Program, MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and National Humanities Center. Klappentext For over a century the U.S. has ¿improved¿ the peoples of Latin America by promoting everything from representative democracy and economic development to oral hygiene. How did this paternalistic practice evolve and spread globally and what are the troubling consequences for a country with a habit of giving¿and for others with a habit of receiving?

Product details

• Authors: Lars Schoultz, Schoultz Lars
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780674984141
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98414-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Wirtschaftswachstum, Internationale Beziehungen, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History of the Americas