Book Request - Latin American, US Imperialism

[BobKKKindle$]

Can anyone recommend some good books which cover the history of US imperialism in Latin America? My knowledge of US intervention in Latin America (protecting the interests of the United Fruit Company, etc.) is lacking.

[Winter]

Can anyone recommend some good books which cover the history of US imperialism in Latin America? My knowledge of US intervention in Latin America (protecting the interests of the United Fruit Company, etc.) is lacking.

I don't know of any books, but here's a link to a great documentary on the subject called The War on Democracy: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3739500579629840148&ei=aJOaSO2ILKCCqgOgsokO&q=the+war+on+democracy&hl=en

Hope it helps :)

[Glenn Beck]

The Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano. It's dated but still really good. For a more artistic version check out the novels of Gabriel García Márquez or Pablo Neruda's poetry. The former is better translated of course, I don't think Neruda is well known at all in the English speaking world. Chomsky has some great stuff in his various books and with his obsession for America's contempt for the international laws it helped create can barely go a few chapters without mentioning the ICJ ruling against the US and the US ignoring the ruling. I might add more to the list later

[mykittyhasaboner]

you might want to check out US Imperialism In Latin America by Edward Kaplan. i came across it when i was browsing the library. it seemed pretty informative.

[tiger-argentina]

The Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano. It's dated but still really good.

:thumbup1::thumbup1: A great book

[redwinter]

I found Killing Hope by William Blum a valuable resource in regard to documenting US foreign interventions...

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

'Under the Eagle. US Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean' by Jenny Pearce:

http://www.amazon.com/Under-Eagle-Intervention-Central-Caribbean/dp/0896081532

Cheap offers here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0896081524/ref=lp_g_1

[iXchel_Xicana]

the banana wars (i believe that's the title. but it talks about how the united fruit company (now Chiquita) was involved in the u.s. supported coup on a left wing president of Guatemala (i forgot his name, sorry.)

Latin America: from colonization to globalization by Noam Chomsky.

Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzales

:cool:

[loveme4whoiam]

Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles - The United States and Latin America Since 1945, by Alan McPherson. Great book.

[Decolonize The Left]

The Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano.

:thumbup1:

Rouge State by William Blum is also interesting.

- August

[Guerrilla22]

Bitter Fruit, abook about US involvement in Guatemala is a good read.

[FreeFocus]

Empire's Workshop, by NYU professor Greg Grandin.

[gla22]

I don't know of any books, but here's a link to a great documentary on the subject called The War on Democracy: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3739500579629840148&ei=aJOaSO2ILKCCqgOgsokO&q=the+war+on+democracy&hl=en

Hope it helps :)
Great video. The Noam Chomsky book recommended is good as well.

[oujiQualm]

A classic with much bang for the page is called The Poverty Of Progress. It is about the transformation of regionalist cauldillo Sp? let power to integrated nation states geared towards the international market. It basically covers around 1850-1920, but this is a VERY VERY KEY period understanding everything going on today.

Next I would like to recommend MY NEW FAVORITE BOOK IN THE UNIVERSE WHICH I JUST FINISHED ABOUT A MONTH AGO.

It is called They Will Be Done: Nelson Rockefeller, Evangelism, and the Conquest of the Amazon In the Age of Oil.

This book is so good that my teeth are dropping out because they are tired of listening to me bloviate about it. It is about Latin America and also the US in unbelievable ways that are well known but not these aspects! Sorry for this poor review but I just woke up. It starts in US with division of fundamentalism and Rockys liberal World COuncil of Churches, then ties these churches funding directly into competing oil factions that used missionairies to get the land from the Indians to the oil companies--Pew "charitable Trust" really Sunoco oil in Philly-- funder of the leading Journalism school at U penn annenberg, vs The Six big Standard oils. THen after briefly going over how this effectd us indians it goes down to Latin America and focuses on Wycliffe Bible Translaters and their CIA connected missionary front called the Summer Linguistics Institute. Ask any anthropologist about this one,its the most contraversial thing in US imperialism-anthropology! SIL is also shown active in Vietnam and the CIA genocide in Indonesia of 1965.

Now all of this might sound a little too "non-governmental" for a novice reader, you might be thinking. NOT SO> THIS BOOK TIES ALL THIS STUFF INTO THE NOMINALLY POLITICAL REALM DEFTLY AND EXTREMELY NON-BORINGLY. Just enough dictators and their US backers, just enough CIA factions and their historical context are given to make the best WHOLE BALL OF WAX type book imaginable.

Most books with this kind of scope and ambition are failures, because they say a little bit and not enough about areas you alreadly know about and move on leaving you unconvinced. Not this one. This book landed on areas that I had read gazoodles about and left my jaw on the formica, going how did I never hear abou this!

GET! NOW! sorry, this book makes me march. oh the authors are Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett

[JimmyJazz]

The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America by Thomas F. O'Brien
Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer (good chapters on Guatemala and Chile)
Bush versus Chavez by Eva Golinger

Killing Hope by William Blum is a good starting reference for all imperialism studies.

If I was at home I could give you a few more, but that's all I can remember.

Wikipedia is actually a great source--I've read nearly all of its articles relating to the Sandinistas, Allende, and Arbenz. Start with articles like "The history of Guatamala", of Columbia, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico, and so on. From there you can find the years and names associated with major U.S. interventions, then go to the main articles on those. Then read the main articles on the major characters and organizations, and just keep linking. You can learn a lot, probably more than from any one book.

[JimmyJazz]

Bob, I just found this, the most complete listing of U.S. interventions I have ever seen online:

http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/interventions.htm

[Rawthentic]

Most of Noam Chomsky's books deal with US intervention in Latin American (amongst other places).