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CHOICE Review

Krenn deals with the rise of economic nationalism in Latin America during and after WW I, and US official reaction--antagonism--to it. His study centers particularly on Mexico and Colombia, where economic nationalism was particularly noticeable, and Venezuela and Brazil, where it was not. The author maintains that there were various motives for US policymakers' strong opposition to Latin American economic nationalism. These included the desire to have US firms control the exploitation of Latin American natural resources; the broader wish to have the US dominate the economies of the hemisphere; fear of "Bolshevism," which tended to be equated with economic nationalism and anti-Yankeeism; and bald racism, which saw the Latin Americans as incapable, not only because of lack of education and training but also because of innate racial inferiority, of undertaking the development of their own national economies. This book is of particular interest to scholars of Latin American history and politics and students of international relations. -R. J. Alexander, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus