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The United States and Latin America

Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization and Nature

By: Fredrick B. Pike

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The United States and Latin America

Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization and Nature

By: Fredrick B. Pike

The lazy greaser asleep under a sombrero and the avaricious gringo with money-stuffed pockets are only two of the negative stereotypes that North Americans and Latin Americans have cherished during several centuries of mutual misunderstanding. This unique study probes the origins of these stereotypes and myths and explores how they have shaped North American impressions of Latin America from the time of the Pilgrims up to the end of the twentieth century. Fredrick Pike's central thesis is that North Americans have identified themselves with "civilization" in all its manifestations, while viewing Latin Americans as hopelessly trapped in primitivism, the victims of nature rather than its masters. He shows how this civilization-nature duality arose from the first European settlers' perception that nature—and everything identified with it, including American Indians, African slaves, all women, and all children—was something to be conquered and dominated. This myth eventually came to color the North American establishment view of both immigrants to the United States and all our neighbors to the south.

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University of Texas Press

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0292787898

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9780292787896

The United States and the Andean Republics

Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador

By: Fredrick B. Pike

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The United States and the Andean Republics

Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador

By: Fredrick B. Pike

Monograph on the role of USA in the present and historical political development of the Andean region - treats the rise of 'corporativism', ie. The protection of traditional culture and social structure from negative outside capitalistic influences, in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, and discusses the effects of race and religion, Marxism, elites, and the CIAP on the formation of political ideology. Maps and references.

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Harvard University Press

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0674923006

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9780674923003

FDR's Good Neighbor Policy

Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos

By: Fredrick B. Pike

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FDR's Good Neighbor Policy

Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos

By: Fredrick B. Pike

A study of how and why US-Latin American relations changed in the 1930s: “Brilliant . . . [A] charming and perceptive work.” ―Foreign Affairs During the 1930s, the United States began to look more favorably on its southern neighbors. Latin America offered expanded markets to an economy crippled by the Great Depression, while threats of war abroad nurtured in many Americans isolationist tendencies and a desire for improved hemispheric relations. One of these Americans was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the primary author of America’s Good Neighbor Policy. In this thought-provoking book, Bolton Prize winner Fredrick Pike takes a wide-ranging look at FDR’s motives for pursuing the Good Neighbor Policy, how he implemented it, and how its themes played out up to the mid-1990s. Pike’s investigation goes far beyond standard studies of foreign and economic policy. He explores how FDR’s personality and Eleanor Roosevelt’s social activism made them uniquely simpático to Latin Americans. He also demonstrates how Latin culture flowed north to influence U.S. literature, film, and opera. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in hemispheric relations.

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The United States and Latin America

Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization and Nature

By: Fredrick B. Pike

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FDR's Good Neighbor Policy

Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos

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Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos

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Book's by Fredrick B. Pike

The United States and Latin America

The United States and Latin America

The United States and the Andean Republics

The United States and the Andean Republics

FDR's Good Neighbor Policy

FDR's Good Neighbor Policy

The United States and Latin America

The United States and Latin America

FDR's Good Neighbor Policy

FDR's Good Neighbor Policy

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