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050	0	0	_aF1418 _b.G66 2007
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100	1		_aGrandin, Greg _d, 1962-
245	1	0	_aEmpire's workshop _b: Latin America, the United States, and the rise of the new imperialism _c/ Greg Grandin ; with a new afterword on the Obama doctrine
250			_a1st Holt Paperbacks ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Holt Paperbacks _c, 2007, c2006.
300			_a300 p. _c; 22 cm.
490	0		_aThe American empire project
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-284) and index.
520			_aAmerica's post-9/11 policy of idealistic military adventurism has a long history, argues this incisive study. NYU historian Grandin (The Blood of Guatemala) sketches the vexed course of U.S. relations with Latin America, but focuses on the Reagan administration's involvement in Central America during the 1980s, when it backed the Salvadoran government in a brutal civil war against left-wing insurgents and the Nicaraguan Contras against the Sandinista regime. Then as now, Grandin contends, Washington justified a militarist stance by citing a threat to America (Communists advancing on the Rio Grande) and championing democracy and human rights. America did not send troops but did sponsor native death squads in El Salvador, and the author notes recent press reports that the U.S. military is sponsoring similar death squads in Iraq. Grandin's conception of American imperialism-covering everything from outright invasion to corporate investment and Fed interest-rate hikes-is too broad, and he overstates the importance of Central America in the making of the American New Right.
650		0	_aLatin America _x--History
650		0	_aImperialism
651		0	_aLatin America _x--Relations _z--United States
651			_aUnited States _x-Foreign relations _y-2001-
942			_cLAS
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