Intellectual And Cultural Relations Between The United States And Latin America

A report on a tour of the principal capitals of South America by a party of university men under the auspices of the American Association for International Conciliation.

Excerpt from Intellectual and Cultural Relations Between the United States and the Other Republics of America From the organization of the Division of Intercourse and Education of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1911, one of the bits of work most clearly in mind has been the development of closer acquaintance and better understanding between the peoples of the various republics on the American continent. Owing to difficulties and delays interposed by distance as well as by slow communication, it has not been possible to proceed as rapidly with this part of the work of the Division as had been hoped. One or two plans that had been fully worked out failed of execution because of the illness of those who had been selected to execute them. On the other hand, something has perhaps been gained by the necessary delay. It has been possible to study more closely the various elements of the problems involved and to seek and obtain advice from leaders of opinion in the various countries of South America. In pursuance of these plans and of the information and advice so gained, Mr. Robert Bacon made a noteworthy journey through some of the chief South American capitals in the summer of 1913. He explained in forceful and sympathetic fashion the organization and purpose of the Carnegie Endowment and took steps to form branches of the American Association for International Conciliation and of the American Society for International Law in the countries that he visited. Mr. Bacon was everywhere received with much cordiality and was listened to with marked and sympathetic attention. Following Mr. Bacon's visit, a Pan American Division of the American Association for International Conciliation was organized. One of its first tasks was to arrange for the visit to South America during the summer of 1914 of a group of carefully selected and thoroughly representative teachers in the higher educational institutions of the United States. The object in view was to assure the presence in various widely scattered educational institutions in the United States, of men who had seen South America with their own eyes, who had talked with its representative men, and who could speak with some authority concerning the problems and activities of the other American republics. That this task was successfully accomplished is plain to the reader of the report herewith presented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This edited volume revisits the idea of the Western Hemisphere. First articulated by Arthur P. Whitaker in 1954 but with origins in the earlier work of Herbert E. Bolton, it is the idea that "the peoples of this Hemisphere stand in a special relationship to one another which sets them apart from the rest of the word" (Whitaker, 1954). For most scholars of US-Latin American relations, this is a curious concept. They often conceptualize US-Latin American relations through the prism of realism and interventionism. While this volume does not deny that the United States has often acted as an imperial power in Latin America, it is unique in that it challenges scholars to re-think their preconceived notions of inter-American relations and explores the possibility of a common international society for the Americas, especially in the realm of international relations. Unlike most volumes on US-Latin American relations, the book develops its argument in an interdisciplinary manner, bringing together different approaches from disciplines including international relations, global and diplomatic history, human rights studies, and cultural and intellectual history.