Dennis Merrill: 2 books
Bread and the Ballot
The United States and India's Economic Development, 1947-1963
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Dennis Merrill examines the origins and implementation of U.S. economic assistance programs in India from independence in 1947 to the height of John F. Kennedy's "development decade" in 1963. As the Cold War spread to the Third World in the late 1940s and 1950s, American policymakers tried...
Negotiating Paradise
U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in Latin America in the twentieth century demonstrates...