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

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

Schoultz, Lars

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Latin American HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0674244923
ISBN13: 9780674244924
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Apr 1 2020
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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