""Empire and Dissent" is uniformly informative, insightful, and often provocative in the best of senses. This outstanding collection pairs a conceptually innovative and historiographically superior set of essays on empire in the Americas (Spanish, British, and United States) with country-specific chapters on resistance, dissent, and negotiation in contemporary Latin America. These insightful chapters reach beyond traditional course material on Latin American history and politics to address questions of globalization, social movements, and the conceptualization of resistance in an era of U.S. hegemonic power."--Steven Volk, Oberlin College…mehr
""Empire and Dissent" is uniformly informative, insightful, and often provocative in the best of senses. This outstanding collection pairs a conceptually innovative and historiographically superior set of essays on empire in the Americas (Spanish, British, and United States) with country-specific chapters on resistance, dissent, and negotiation in contemporary Latin America. These insightful chapters reach beyond traditional course material on Latin American history and politics to address questions of globalization, social movements, and the conceptualization of resistance in an era of U.S. hegemonic power."--Steven Volk, Oberlin College
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?
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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