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The Pan-American dream : do Latin America's cultural values discourage true partnership with the United States and Canada? / Lawrence E. Harrison.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : BasicBooks, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Edition: First editionDescription: ix, 310 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 046508916X
  • 9780465089161
  • 0813334705
  • 9780813334707
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Pan-American dream.DDC classification:
  • 303.4827308 20
LOC classification:
  • F1410 .H26 1997
Contents:
Introduction : dream or reality? -- The roots of the divergence : Anglo-Protestant versus Ibero-Catholic culture -- Canada and the United States : siblings, not twins -- Latin America and the United States : can two so divergent paths merge? -- The destructive role of American intellectuals (and the savaging of the United Fruit Company) -- Argentina : first world to third world?--and back? -- Brazil : is the future now? -- The Chilean miracle : policies, culture, or both? -- Mexico : the failure of a revolution, the end of a dynasty -- Trade and investment : from "imperialism" to integration? -- Narcotics : a grotesque distorting mirror of both cultures -- Immigration : the Latinization of the United States? -- Conclusion : democracy and the free market are not enough.
Review: "Harrison continues his provocative but hardly novel thesis established in prior works, that the most important factor explaining US and Canadian 'progress' and Latin American 'underdevelopment' is 'the contrast between Anglo-Protestant and Ibero-Catholic culture.' Thus his answer to subtitle question is 'not necessarily' but a successful process will be very difficult"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-300) and index.

Introduction : dream or reality? -- The roots of the divergence : Anglo-Protestant versus Ibero-Catholic culture -- Canada and the United States : siblings, not twins -- Latin America and the United States : can two so divergent paths merge? -- The destructive role of American intellectuals (and the savaging of the United Fruit Company) -- Argentina : first world to third world?--and back? -- Brazil : is the future now? -- The Chilean miracle : policies, culture, or both? -- Mexico : the failure of a revolution, the end of a dynasty -- Trade and investment : from "imperialism" to integration? -- Narcotics : a grotesque distorting mirror of both cultures -- Immigration : the Latinization of the United States? -- Conclusion : democracy and the free market are not enough.

"Harrison continues his provocative but hardly novel thesis established in prior works, that the most important factor explaining US and Canadian 'progress' and Latin American 'underdevelopment' is 'the contrast between Anglo-Protestant and Ibero-Catholic culture.' Thus his answer to subtitle question is 'not necessarily' but a successful process will be very difficult"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

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