Overview
āA pathbreaking work about how policies forged in blood and fire in Latin America were then exported to every corner of the globe. This brilliant and up-to-the-minute new edition is absolutely crucial to understanding our perilous present.ā āNaomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Empire's Workshop is the classic analysis of Latin Americaās role as proving ground for imperial US strategies and tactics, now in a thoroughly updated and revised edition.
Examining over a century of US intervention in Latin America, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin reveals how the region has long served as a laboratory for US foreign policy, providing generations of Washington policy makers with an opportunity to rehearse a broad range of diplomatic and military tacticsātactics that then were applied elsewhere in the world as the US became a global superpower. During the Great Depression, for instance, FDRās Good Neighbor policy taught the United States to use āsoft powerā effectively and provided a blueprint for its postwar āempire by invitation.ā In the 1980s, Reagan likewise turned to Latin America, but now to rehabilitate āhard powerā after the debacle of Vietnam, putting the United States on the road to its current crisis: endless, forever wars.
This completely revised edition includes new information on the US invasion of Panama, US interventions in Cuba, Guatemala, and Chile, Plan Colombia and the War on Drugs, the Obama administrationās involvement in the 2009 coup in Honduras, and the current crisis at the US-Mexico border, caused by decades of misguided Washington policies. Most provocatively, Grandin argues that the origins of many of the current threats to American democracyādisinformation, permanent surveillance, political extremism and out-of-control militarismāwere foreshadowed in the United Statesā Central American policy.
This book title, Empire's Workshop (Updated and Expanded Edition) (Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic), ISBN: 9781250753298, by Greg Grandin, published by Picador (March 2, 2021) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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