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

by Lars Schoultz

Book Overview

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. policymakers have promoted everything from representative democracy and economic development to oral hygiene. Whatever the problem, a bureaucratic culture in Washington D.C. is committed to finding solutions that will uplift Latin Americans.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674984145
• ISBN13: 9780674984141
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"