The Road to Baghdad Passed Through El Salvador. Review of Greg Grandin's <em>Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States and the Rise of the New Imperialism</em> (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006)

  • Eric Zolov Franklin and Marshall College

Resumen

With his most recent book, Empire’s Workshop, Grandin takes a more definitive foray into his new role as public intellectual. Arguing that “the road to Iraq passes through Latin America” (163), Empire’s Workshop maps out a trajectory of U.S.policies in Latin America over the past century, establishing a direct link between U.S.-sponsored regime change and repression in the hemisphere with Bush’s “global war on terror.”

Biografía del autor/a

Eric Zolov, Franklin and Marshall College
Eric Zolov es Profesor Asociado de Historia en Franklin & Marshall College. Actualmente se desempeña también como Editor Asociado de la revista The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History. Es autor del libro Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (University of
California Press, 1999) y co-editor de los volúmenes Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History (Oxford University Press, 2000), Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Popular Culture in Mexico Since 1940 (Duke University Press, 2000), y Rockin' Las Américas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). Su nuevo proyecto examina el impacto de la revolución cubana sobre la política mexicana y las relaciones entre US y México en la década de los 60.
Publicado
2007-01-01
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