Excerpt from Latin America Increasingly intimate relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America will be one of the striking features of the next few decades. Since the days when these sister republics began their independent existence a century ago, their people and our own have been neighbors to Europe, but strangers to each other. Happily this period of mutual isolation has now come to an end. The reasons for this separation of a hundred years are not hard to find. The United States was absorbed ...
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Excerpt from Latin America Increasingly intimate relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America will be one of the striking features of the next few decades. Since the days when these sister republics began their independent existence a century ago, their people and our own have been neighbors to Europe, but strangers to each other. Happily this period of mutual isolation has now come to an end. The reasons for this separation of a hundred years are not hard to find. The United States was absorbed in its own internal development and gave little thought to other coun tries, least oi all to those with whom it had no necessary association. As an agricultural land it exported surplus raw materials - wheat, corn, meat and cotton - to England, France and Germany, and received in return the best grades of manufactured goods. A rapidly swelling stream of immi gration maintained some connection with these older nations across the Atlantic. The diplomacy of the United States was largely limited to problems concerning either Europe or the lands immediately beyond our borders. The large tourist class of today did not exist during most of this period; even the relatively few who went abroad for sightseeing had no desire to visit countries which they regarded as primi tive, sparsely settled and racked by constant revolutions. In fact there was nothing which tended to bring the United States and South America into close contact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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