Hemispheric giants : the misunderstood history of U.S.-Brazilian relations /
Tracing the full arc of U.S.-Brazilian interaction, Hemispheric Giants thoroughly explores the enigmatic and often-misunderstood nature of the relationship between the two largest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Britta Crandall asks the crucialquestion of why significant engagement between the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The importance of dual priorities
- The 1893 naval revolt and the Rio Branco years : origins of the "unique alliance"
- World War I : widening power disparity
- World War II : engagement during the Roosevelt-Vargas years
- The postwar era : drop in policy attention
- The 1950s : bilateral distancing
- The 1960s : Brazil in the fight against communism
- The Carter administration : human rights and nuclear tensions
- The Reagan administration : atomic bombs and foreign debt
- Presidents Bush and Clinton : an economic agenda
- After September 11 : signs of convergence
- Looking into the future : equal partners?
- Conclusion : U.S.-Brazilian relations in perspective.