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Though it has been a key underlying feature in the history and histonography of US-Latin American relations, the Western Hemisphere idea has received very little attention. Originally formulated by Thomas Jefferson in 1813 and later recovered by historian Arthur Whitaker, it is the idea that “the peoples of this [the Western] Hemisphere stand in a special relationship to one another which sets them apart from the rest of the world.”1 Despite the recent revival of global history and comparative American and hemispheric studies, this category has long been dismissed, forgotten, or even perhaps misinterpreted. This book revisits and problematizes this notion and shows that it can be conceived as an illuminating and flexible conceptual framework through which we can gain new and enriching insights into the history and politics of US-Latin American relations, especially into the long-standing tensions between hegemony and cooperation in this relationship.
We are grateful to Charles Jones, Ricardo Salvatore and Tanya Harmer for their comments and suggestions on previous draft versions of this introduction.
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Scarfi, J.P., Tillman, A.R. (2016). Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations. In: Scarfi, J.P., Tillman, A.R. (eds) Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137510747_1
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