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• Publisher : Duke University Press
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• Release Date : 18 June 1998

Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.

• Publisher : Duke University Press
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• Release Date : 08 July 2003

DIVInterdisciplinary collection placing the U.S. imperial project in the Philippines within a global, comparative framework./div

• Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
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• Release Date : 15 May 2018

The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century—the white “banana cowboy” pushing the edges of a tropical frontier—was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by

• Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
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• Release Date : 17 March 2020

Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 16 March 2022

What is Pan-Americanism? People have been struggling with that problem for over a century. Pan-Americanism is (and has been) an amalgam of diplomatic, political, economic, and cultural projects under the

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 29 March 2016

This edited volume revisits the idea of the Western Hemisphere. First articulated by Arthur P. Whitaker in 1954 but with origins in the earlier work of Herbert E. Bolton, it is

• Publisher : University of Arizona Press
• File Size : 31,5 Mb
• Release Date : 14 March 2013

The border between the United States and Mexico, established in 1853, passes through the territory of the Tohono O'odham peoples. This revealing book sheds light on Native American history as well

• Publisher : Ediciones Uniandes-Universidad de los Andes
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• Release Date : 01 September 2012

This book reveals the history behind the trade of Colombian birds as a means of comprehending the scientific, economic and environmental relations between the United States and Colombia from the 1880

• Publisher : Duke University Press
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• Release Date : 03 January 2020

Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw attention

• Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
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• Release Date : 18 June 2024

Before the breakthrough of postcolonial studies, British science-fiction authors already saw the opportunity to discuss political and ethical issues of imperialism by projecting human history and behavior onto the alien