Author: Thomas Billing OberlitnerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Relations of Colombia and the United States Since 1935
Author: Thomas Billing OberlitnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Colombia and the United States
Author: Stephen J. RandallPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820314020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Strategically located at the gateway to the South American continent, Colombia has long been a key player in shaping the United States' involvement with its Latin American neighbors. In this book Stephen J. Randall examines the course of U.S.-Colombian relations over two centuries, taking into account the broad spectrum of political, social, cultural, and economic contacts that have figured in the interaction. A leader in the movement for independence from Spain in the early nineteenth century, Colombia shared with the United States the aspiration of becoming a leader for the entire hemisphere. Its early efforts in this direction--notably its initiation in the 1820s of the first Pan-American Conference--soon languished, however, as the unequal growth between the two countries took its toll. By the turn of the century, after years of destructive civil war, Colombia had slipped far behind its northern neighbor militarily, economically, and politically. The United States, meanwhile, had emerged as a great power, and the first major manifestation of the two countries' divergence came with the U.S.-supported secession of Panama in 1903--an event that deeply shocked Colombians and tainted their view of the United States for subsequent generations. During the twentieth century, Randall explains, a tension in Colombian politics and culture has persisted between those who advocate an independent, even antagonistic, stance toward the United States and those who propound a policy of realism that accepts Colombia's place as a middle, regional power within the U.S. orbit. For its part, the United States has continually failed to realize that Colombians, with their European intellectual heritage stretching back four hundred years, do not see themselves as an insignificant Third World nation. The result has been an often strained relationship, which Randall traces through two world wars, economic booms and depressions, the Cold War, and, finally, the present-day guerrilla conflicts and drug trade controversies. Drawing on archival sources in both countries, many previously unused, this book is the first comprehensive overview in more than fifty years of the U.S.-Colombian relationship.
Register of the University of California
Author: University of California (1868-1952)Publisher:
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Information Bulletin
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ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3264
Book Description
Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Hist. Study
Author: Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3260
Book Description
Department of State Bulletin
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.
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