Rosen / Joseph / Rosenberg Empire and Dissent

The United States and Latin America
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8144-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 283 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

This collection examines the question of Empire, the various forms of resistance, dissent and/or accomodation it generates, and the ways it has manifested itself in the Americas, analyzing U.S. hemispheric relations at the turn of the 21st century from an

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosen, Fred

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

A Reader's Guide ix

Introduction / Fred Rosen 1

Part I. Empire in the Americas: Historical Reflections

1. U.S. Imperialist/Hegemony and Latin American Resistance / Alan Knight 23

2. "We Are Heirs-apparent to the Romans": Imperial Myths and Indigenous Status / Gregory Evans Dowd 53

3. The Finances of Hegemony in Latin America: Debt Negotiations and the Role of the U.S. Government, 1945-2005 / Carlos Marichal 90

Part II. Empire and Resistance in the Twenth-First Century

5. Beyond Hegemony: Zapatismo, Empire, and Dissent / Neil Harvey 117

6. Colonialism and Ethnic Resistance in Bolivia: A View from the Coca Markets / Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui 137

7. High Stakes in Brazil: Can Democracy Take on Empire? / Jeffrey W. Rubin 162

8. From Menem to Kirchner: National Autonomy and Social Movements in Argentina / Daniel A. Cieza 188

9. The Hugo Chavez Phenomenon: Anti-imperialism from Above or Radical Democracy from Below? / Steve Ellner 205

Bibliography 229

Contributors 251

Index 253

Über Autor(innen)

Fred Rosen is an independent journalist and political economist based in New York and Mexico City. He is a contributing editor to the NACLA Report on the Americas, a political columnist for the Mexico edition of The Miami Herald, and a co-editor of Latin America after Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide in the Twenty-first Century?