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03275aam a2200385 i 4500 001 354E6380B0D511E8923D894D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180905010705 008 180122t20182018mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017061473 020 $a 0674984145 020 $a 9780674984141 035 $a (OCoLC)1020313141 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a cl----- $a cl----- 050 00 $a F1418 S395 2018 100 1 $a Schoultz, Lars, $e author. 245 10 $a In their own best interest : $b a history of the U.S. effort to improve Latin Americans / $c Lars Schoultz. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a 392 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a In 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.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Altruists and realists -- Latin Americans' need for improvement -- "Hard" uplifting begins -- "Hard" uplifting becomes normal: dollar diplomacy -- Latin Americans resist: no protectorates -- Latin Americans resist: no intervention -- "Soft" uplifting begins: the Good Neighbor years -- Latin Americans rebuffed: the early Cold War -- Uplifting's golden years, 1959-1964 -- Soft uplifting becomes normal: the later Cold War -- From economic to political uplifting -- Good governance in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion: Whose best interests?. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Latin America. 651 0 $a Latin America $x Foreign relations $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Moral and ethical aspects. $x Moral and ethical aspects. 651 0 $a United States $x Philosophy. $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Politicians $z United States $x Attitudes. 650 0 $a Economic assistance, American $z Latin America $x History. 650 0 $a Progressivism (United States politics) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180905050106.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=354E6380B0D511E8923D894D97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search