{"product_id":"invaded-how-latin-americans-and-their-allies-fought-and-ended-u-s-occupations-paperback","title":"Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan McPherson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1912 the United States sent troops into a Nicaraguan civil war, solidifying a decades-long era of military occupations in Latin America driven by the desire to rewrite the political rules of the hemisphere. In this definitive account of the resistance to the three longest occupations-in Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic-Alan McPherson analyzes these events from the perspective of the invaded themselves, showing why people resisted and why the troops eventually left. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConfronting the assumption that nationalism primarily drove resistance, McPherson finds more concrete-yet also more passionate-motivations: hatred for the brutality of the marines, fear of losing land, outrage at cultural impositions, and thirst for political power. These motivations blended into a potent mix of anger and resentment among both rural and urban occupied populations. Rejecting the view that Washington withdrew from Latin American occupations for moral reasons, McPherson details how the invaded forced the Yankees to leave, underscoring day-to-day resistance and the transnational network that linked New York, Havana, Mexico City, and other cities. Political culture, he argues, mattered more than military or economic motives, as U.S. marines were determined to transform political values and occupied peoples fought to conserve them. Occupiers tried to speed up the modernization and centralization of these poor, rural societies and, ironically, to build nationalism where they found it lacking. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on rarely seen documents in three languages and five countries, this lively narrative recasts the very nature of occupation as a colossal tragedy, doomed from the outset to fail. In doing so, it offers broad lessons for today's invaders \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e invaded.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlan McPherson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of International and Area Studies, ConocoPhillips Petroleum Chair in Latin American Studies, and Director of the Center for the Americas, University of Oklahoma. He is the author of the prizewinning \u003cem\u003eYankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations\u003c\/em\u003e and of \u003cem\u003eIntimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin America since 1945\u003c\/em\u003e, and editor of \u003cem\u003eAnti-Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean\u003c\/em\u003e, co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Anti-American Century\u003c\/em\u003e, and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Encyclopedia of US Military Interventions in Latin America.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753882091808,"sku":"9780190498764","price":82.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/863b6f946acec34b7f26dff5c6119545.webp?v=1780028826","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/invaded-how-latin-americans-and-their-allies-fought-and-ended-u-s-occupations-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}