Friday, October 20, 2006

Close encounters of empire: writing the cultural history of U.S.-Latin American relations

Title: Close encounters of empire: writing the cultural history of U.S.-Latin American relations

Published: Durham: Duke University Press, 1998

Description: xv, 575 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Note: Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore; with a foreword by Fernando Coronil

Subject(s):
  • Latin America -- Relations -- United States
  • United States -- Relations -- Latin America
  • Latin America -- Civilization -- American influences

Review(s):

  • Dwyer, John J. "Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations." The Historian 63.1 (Fall 2000): 152
  • Delpar, Helen. "INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS AND ENCOUNTERS: Recent Directions in the Literature." Latin American Research Review 35.3 (Summer 2000): 155
  • Spenser, D. "Rural Revolt in Mexico: U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics, and: Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations, and: The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945." Hispanic American Historical Review 80.1 (Feb 1, 2000): 146

Read: November 1999