Lars Schoultz: 3 books
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic
The United States and the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that...
The Populist Challenge
Argentine Electoral Behavior in the Postwar Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Schoultz examines the fundamental political cleavage between classical liberalism and the populist Peronist political movements in Argentina, identifying the socioeconomic structural features that led to this division and focusing on changes in social class composition that accompanied major demographic...
In Their Own Best Interest
A History of the U.S. Effect to Improve Latin Americans
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
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?