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

by Lars Schoultz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674244923
• ISBN13: 9780674244924
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"