In the not-so-distant past, historians viewed inter-American relations and its parent, diplomatic history, as areas suffering from a serious shortage of innovative scholarship. After dependency theorists introduced some fresh insight to the field, students of U.S.–Latin American relations seemed to ignore blissfully trends such as social history, gender theory, ethnohistory, and cultural studies. In the past decade, all that has changed. Studies of the Americas have examined the transformational missions of U.S. corporations, the influences of gender and race on Washington’s policies, and the myriad ways in which Americans have imagined and reimagined their neighbors to the south. Julio Moreno’s Yankee Don’t Go Home is a solid contribution to that renaissance in inter-American studies.
Moreno explores the ways in which Mexican and U.S. elites cooperatively promoted the continued development of industrial capitalism by enveloping these policies in revolutionary rhetoric and images that defined industrial development as a force of Mexican...
