U.S. Influence in Latin America in the 1980sby Robert Wesson

✍ Scribed by Review by: Robert D. Crassweller

• Book ID: 124207078
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 193 KB
• Volume: 61
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20041588

✦ Synopsis

450 pp. Conventional historical wisdom holds that Great Britain lost the American colonies because of a blundering insistence on imposing new controls in place of the easy-going status quo which had prevailed before the imperial victory over France in 1763. Robert Tucker, a distinguished scholar of current foreign policy, and his younger colleague challenge this wisdom in this skillful excursion into the 18th century. They argue that the requirements of imperial defense, as