[mgj-discuss] Empire's Workshop: Latin America, The United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

[Christy Pardew]

Greg Grandin discusses his new book Empire's Workshop: Latin America,
The United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

 

Thursday June 8, 2006

6:30 PM

Busboys and Poets

Langston Room

2021 14th Street (at V Street)

  

Empire's Workshop is one of the first books to examine how a preemptive
foreign policy in Latin America, which included sponsoring coups,
death-squad states, and paramilitary insurgencies, has transformed
America's domestic policies, forging today's ruling coalition of
neoconservatives, Christian evangelicals, free marketers, and
nationalists. The road to war in Iraq, Grandin provocatively argues, can
be traced back to the 1970s and 1980s, when an increasingly
internationalist New Right turned to Latin America to avenge Vietnam,
and in so doing rehabilitated militarism as a legitimate instrument of
state and made free-market capitalism the moral core of American purpose
abroad. 

 

 This event is free and open to the public.

  

To read an excerpt, go to
<http://www.americanempireproject.com/bookexcerpt.asp?ISBN=0805077383)%A
0> http://www.americanempireproject.com/index.htm and for a summary
<http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/29862> http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/29862.


 

Greg Grandin, a professor of Latin American history at New York
University, is the author of two previous books, The Last Colonial
Massacre and the award-winning The Blood of Guatemala. The recipient of
a Guggenheim fellowship, Grandin has served on the United Nations Truth
Commission investigating the Guatemalan civil war and has contributed to
Harper's, The Nation, and the New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn, New
York.

 

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