Tell your friends about this item:
In Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans Lars Schoultz
Do you have a profile? Log in
Get notified about new Lars Schoultz releases
Our customers say:
Add to your iMusic wish list
Also available as:
In Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans
Lars Schoultz
For over a century the U. S. has "improved" the peoples of Latin America by promoting everything from representative democracy and economic development to oral hygiene. How did this paternalistic practice evolve and spread globally and what are the troubling consequences for a country with a habit of giving-and for others with a habit of receiving?
400 pages, 1 illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 6, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674984141 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 400 |
| Dimensions | 165 × 243 × 34 mm · 680 g |
