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America's backyard : the United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror / Grace Livingstone.

Livingstone, Grace.

London ; New York : Zed Books ; London : Latin America Bureau ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2009.

9781848132139 (hardback)

1848132131 (hardback)

9781848132146 (pbk.)

184813214X (pbk.)

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.

vii, 270 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Latin America -- Foreign relations -- United States.

United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America

Latin America -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

Latin America -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

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