General Information

Author/Creator

Livingstone, Grace.

Language

English.

Published

London ; New York : Zed Books ; London : Latin America Bureau ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2009.

Physical Description

vii, 270 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subjects

Subject

Latin America > Foreign relations > United States.

United States > Foreign relations > Latin America.

Latin America > Social conditions > 19th century.

Latin America > Social conditions > 20th century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Grace Livingstone.

Content

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.

ISBN

9781848132139

1848132131

9781848132146

184813214

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	327.8073 LIV		OSA Repository	Donation of School of Public Policy.

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