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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aSchoultz, Lars, _e1
245	1	0	_aIn their own best interest : _ba history of the U.S. effort to improve Latin Americans / _cLars Schoultz.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource (392 pages)
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_aIn this book, Lars Schoultz explores the culture of "improvement" that defines the attitudes and values shaping all United States policies towards Latin America in the past and present. Schoultz's aim is to find the sources of this political and intellectual culture which has informed our relations with our southern neighbors and which continues to do so despite its faulty premises and its failure to effect change and transformation. Schoultz focuses on two period in the past as critical to embedding the culture and policies of improvement: the Progressive Era, which established the belief in "uplifting" others for their betterment, and the Cold War Era, which established the institutions for sustaining and implementing the process of uplifting a people and state. In Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans is a powerful historical indictment of a "constellation of beliefs" that has been a central part of Washington's foreign policy establishment and culture. The notion that the United States knows better than its allies and neighbors what is best for each of them resonates beyond Latin America and underlies much of the United States' foreign policies around the world.-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aEstablishing the need for improvement -- _tUplifting begins: the War of 1898 -- _tMoney doctors, democracy doctors, and marines -- _tLatin American opposition and the retreat from protectorates -- _tPledging to be a good neighbor -- _tBreaking new ground: uplifting institutions -- _tTo improve or not to improve? The Cold War question --Cuba determines the answer -- _tLosing Panache, entrenching institutions -- _tThe evolution from economic to political improvement -- _tPromoting good governance.
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650		0	_aPoliticians _zUnited States _xAttitudes.
650		0	_aEconomic assistance, American _zLatin America _xHistory.
650		0	_aProgressivism (United States politics)
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1833665&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell