Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History
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Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History brings together the most important documents on the history of the relationship between the United States and Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. In addition to standard diplomatic sources, the book includes documents touching on the transnational concerns that are increasingly taught in the classroom, including economic relations, environmental matters, immigration, human rights, and culture. The collection illuminates key issues while representing a variety of interests and views as they have both persisted and shifted over time, including often-overlooked Latin American perspectives and U.S. public opinion.
Now fully revised in its second edition, Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History features updated selections on current trends, including key new documents on immigration, regional integration, indigenous political movements, democratization, and economic policy. The second edition adds twenty-one documents and revises ten existing texts to ensure maximum clarity. The first edition's careful consideration of the Latin American perspective on hemispheric relations has been strengthened in the second edition, with many selections translated from the original Spanish by the editors… [From Amazon.com]
ISBN
9780195385687
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
New York, NY
Keywords
Foreign relations, Latin America, United States
Disciplines
Diplomatic History | International Relations | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | United States History
Recommended Citation
Holden, Robert H. (Editor) and Zolov, Eric (Editor), "Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History" (2011). History Faculty Bookshelf. 8.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/history_books/8