{"product_id":"improvised-continent-9780812249422","title":"Improvised Continent","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Improvised Continent, Richard Candida Smith synthesizes over seventy years of Pan-American cultural activity in the United States and shows how Latin American artists and writers challenged U.S. citizens about their place in the world and about the kind of global relations the country's interests could allow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Count Richard Candida Smith among the best of those scholars doing transnational history. \u003ci\u003eImprovised Continent\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant investigation of U.S. and Latin American intellectuals and artists who formed networks that the United States used for its cultural diplomacy. But as Candida Smith deftly shows, there was an irony in cultural imperialism, as these intellectuals and artists served not only to teach U.S. audiences about the rest of the Americas. They also served as critics of American society and offered up a distinctly robust liberalism rooted in the utopia of pan-Americanism.\" * Andrew Hartman, author of \u003ci\u003eA War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Poets, painters, policymakers, and others wrestle over pan-American hopes and disappointments in Richard Cándida Smith's illuminating and thoughtful work. Spanning the twentieth century, and ranging across diverse sources in four languages, \u003ci\u003eImprovised Continent\u003c\/i\u003e brings new cultural and intellectual depth to the history of Latin American and U.S. relations.\" * Brooke L. Blower, Boston University *","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405731144023,"sku":"9780812249422","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812249422.jpg?v=1730493429","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/improvised-continent-9780812249422","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}