02741cam a2200433 a 4500 115869 20230404125914.0 090714s2009 enkab b 001 0 eng 15816429 2009294731 GBA8C9345 bnb 014800476 Uk 9781848132139 (hardback) 1848132131 (hardback) 9781848132146 (pbk.) 184813214X (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocn271774682 UKM UKM YDXCP C#P BWX CDX J2H DLC lccopycat cl----- n-us--- 100 F 1418 L788a 2009 327.8073 Livingstone, Grace. America's backyard : the United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror / Grace Livingstone. London ; New York : Zed Books ; London : Latin America Bureau ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2009. vii, 270 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index. 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. The United States has shaped Latin American history, condemning it to poverty and inequality by intervening to protect the rich and powerful. America's Backyard tells the story of that intervention. Using newly declassified documents, Grace Livingstone reveals the US role in the darkest periods of Latin American history, including Pinochet's coup in Chile, the Contra War in Nicaragua and the death squads in El Salvador. Latin America Foreign relations United States. United States Foreign relations Latin America. Latin America Social conditions 19th century. Latin America Social conditions 20th century. América Latina Relaciones exteriores Estados Unidos. Estados Unidos Relaciones exteriores América Latina. América Latina Condiciones sociales Siglo XIX. América Latina Condiciones sociales Siglo XX. lcc bk 7055 7055 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-04 1 0 100 F 1418 L788a 2009 00000109719 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk