Bøger af Nick Cullather

An analysis of the complex political and economic relationship between the United States and the Phillipines. Although the United States had negligible economic interests in the Philippines, it saw a strong US military presence there as a necessary part of its global defence.

Tells the history of how the United States government, along with private philanthropies like the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, aimed to win the hearts and bodies of rural Asia in the post World War II decades by crafting strategies to develop and modernize agriculture and the peasant's way of life.

Chronicles an early example of "regime change" that was based on a flawed interpretation of intelligence and proclaimed a success even as its mistakes were becoming clear. Here, the author has selected and annotated twenty documents for a documentary Appendix, culminating with President Clinton's apology to the people of Guatemala.