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Making the Americas: U.S. Business People and Latin Americans from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization
Author(s) -
O'Brien Thomas
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.067
Subject(s) - latin americans , politics , globalization , psychological intervention , consciousness , work (physics) , political science , economic history , economic growth , political economy , development economics , psychology , history , sociology , economics , engineering , law , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , neuroscience
U.S. business people have played a central role in shaping the relationship between the United States and Latin America. Their ambitious transportation, mining, and plantation projects had dramatic economic and political effects on the nations of the Circum‐Caribbean during the nineteenth century. In the course of the past one hundred years, American corporations have extended their activity throughout South America, affecting not only economic development, but attempting to alter the work habits and consciousness of millions of Latin Americans, and providing an important catalyst for both mass political movements in the region and U.S. interventions.