Greg Grandin

Greg Grandin è uno storico e acclamato autore le cui opere hanno ottenuto prestigiosi riconoscimenti, tra cui il Premio Pulitzer per la saggistica per "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America." Il suo libro "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City" è stato finalista per il Premio Pulitzer, il National Book Award e il National Book Critics Circle Award. Tra le altre opere degne di nota figurano "The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World," vincitore del Bancroft Prize e definito da Toni Morrison "avvincente, brillante e necessario," e "Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic," un’analisi critica della politica estera statunitense.

La ricerca di Grandin esplora temi come l’imperialismo, la schiavitù e l’identità americana, spesso unendo un rigoroso lavoro storico a una narrazione profonda. Il suo libro "The Empire of Necessity" ricostruisce una rivolta su una nave di schiavi che ispirò "Benito Cereno" di Herman Melville, mentre "Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman" esamina l’eredità di Henry Kissinger. Professore alla Yale University, Grandin ha collaborato con pubblicazioni come The New York Times, The Nation e la London Review of Books. La sua competenza lo ha portato a ricoprire ruoli consultivi, incluso quello nella Commissione per la Verità delle Nazioni Unite che ha indagato sulla guerra civile in Guatemala. La sua opera più recente, "America, América: A New History of the New World," è diventata un bestseller del New York Times, consolidando ulteriormente la sua reputazione come voce di spicco nel campo della storiografia.
Libri di non-fiction
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1 The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation 2000
2 Human Rights and Revolutions (With: Lynn Hunt, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Marilyn B. Young) 2000
3 The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War 2004
4 Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City 2009
5 Who Is Rigoberta Menchu? 2011
6 The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World 2014
7 Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman 2015
8 The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America 2019
9 America, América: A New History of the New World 2025
American Encounters/Global Interactions Books
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1 Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943-1991 (By: Stephen Gundle, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg) 1995
2 Rural Revolt in Mexico: U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics (By: Daniel Nugent) 1998
3 Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine LeGrand, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Emily S. Rosenberg, Fernando Coronil) 1998
4 The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945 (By: Eric Paul Roorda) 1998
5 Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 (By: Eileen J. Suárez Findlay) 1999
6 Adios Muchachos: A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution (By: Sergio Ramírez, Stacey Alba Skar) 1999
7 Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930 (By: Emily S. Rosenberg) 1999
8 White Love and Other Events in Filipino History (By: Vicente L. Rafael) 2000
9 Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Emília Viotti da Costa, Barbara Weinstein, Mary Mahoney) 2001
10 Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution (By: Christina Duffy Burnett, Burke Marshall) 2001
11 Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940 (By: Elena Poniatowska, Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein) 2001
12 In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995 (By: Steve Striffler) 2001
13 The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives (By: Julian Go, Anne L. Foster) 2003
14 Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris (By: Jeffrey H. Jackson) 2003
15 Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas (By: Steve Striffler, Mark Moberg) 2003
16 A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory (By: Emily S. Rosenberg) 2003
17 Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama , Cover may vary (By: John Lindsay-Poland) 2003
18 Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (By: Catherine Ceniza Choy) 2003
19 September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? (By: Khaled Abou El Fadl, Elaine Tyler May, Mary L. Dudziak, Leti Volpp, Sherman A. Jackson, Christopher L.Eisgruber, Lawrence G.Sager, Dudziak) 2003
20 Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint (By: Paul J. Vanderwood) 2004
21 America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia (By: Seth Jacobs) 2004
22 Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Suzana Sawyer) 2004
23 Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border (By: Elliott Young) 2004
24 Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (By: Noenoe K. Silva) 2004
25 Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History (By: Elliott Young, Samuel Truett) 2004
26 The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas (By: Lesley Gill) 2004
27 Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule (By: Michel Gobat) 2005
28 From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Jennifer Bickham Mendez) 2005
29 Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (By: Ann Laura Stoler) 2006
30 From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 (By: Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, Zephyr L. Frank) 2006
31 In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Daniela Spenser) 2007
32 Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930 (By: Dwayne R. Winseck, Robert M. Pike) 2007
33 FDR and the Spanish Civil War: Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Dominic Tierney) 2007
34 The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations (By: Marc S. Gallicchio) 2007
35 The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity (By: Heather Levi) 2008
36 Empire and Dissent: The United States and Latin America (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Fred Rosen) 2008
37 Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class (By: Aviva Chomsky) 2008
38 Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Allen Wells) 2008
39 Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory (By: Scott Laderman, Gilbert M.Joseph, Emily S.Rosenberg) 2008
40 Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812-1960 (By: Kathryn Kish Sklar, Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Ian R. Tyrrell, Sue Gronewold, Rui Kohiyama, Derek Chang, Kathryn KishSklar, Connie A.Shemo, Jane H.Hunter, Mary KupiecCayton, Wendy Urban-Mead, Susan HaskellKhan, Betty AnnBergland, Sylvia M.Jacobs, Laura R.Prieto, Mary A.Renda, Connie A. Shemo) 2009
41 Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories (By: Dominique Brégent-Heald, Rachel St. John, Bethel Saler, Benjamin H. Johnson, Carolyn Podruchny, Andrew R.Graybill, Miguel ÁngelGonzález Quiroga, Michel Hogue, Jennifer Seltz, Lissa Wadewitz, S. DeborahKang, Andrea Geiger, Andrew R. Graybill) 2009
42 A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War 2009
43 Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Micol Seigel) 2009
44 The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela (By: Miguel Salas) 2009
45 The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Lauren Hutchinson Derby) 2009
46 Projections of Power: The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919-1941 (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Anne L. Foster) 2010
47 Satan's Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America's Greatest Gaming Resort (By: Paul J. Vanderwood) 2010
48 Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Zubeda Jalalzai, David Jefferess, Gwen Bergner, Maliha Chishti) 2011
49 Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet's Move into the Twenty-First Century (By: John Kenneth Knaus) 2012
50 Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States (By: Heidi Tinsman) 2013
51 In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region (By: Seth Garfield) 2013
52 Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (By: Kirsten Weld) 2014
53 Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938–1968 (By: Benjamin T. Smith, Paul Gillingham) 2014
54 Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone (By: Michael E. Donoghue) 2014
55 Body and Nation: The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century (By: Emily S. Rosenberg, Shanon Fitzpatrick) 2014
56 We Are Left without a Father Here: Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico (By: Eileen J. Suárez Findlay) 2014
57 Disciplinary Conquest: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900–1945 (By: Ricardo D. Salvatore) 2016
58 Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain (By: Kristin L. Hoganson) 2020
59 The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties (By: Eric Zolov) 2020
60 Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America (By: Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Raúl Necochea López) 2020
American Empire Project Books
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1 Blowback 2000
2 Hegemony or Survival 2003
3 A People's History of American Empire 2003
4 The Sorrows of Empire 2003
5 Crusade 2004
6 Blood and Oil 2004
7 Imperial Ambitions 2005
8 Dilemmas of Domination 2005
9 Empire's Workshop 2006
10 A Question of Torture 2006
11 Failed States 2006
12 Nemesis 2007
13 What We Say Goes 2007
14 The Complex 2008
15 Ain't My America 2008
16 The Limits of Power 2008
17 Washington Rules 2010
18 Dismantling the Empire 2010
19 Kill Anything That Moves 2011
20 Power Systems 2012
21 Breach of Trust 2013
22 Who Rules the World? 2014
23 Base Nation 2015
24 Global Discontents 2017
25 After the Apocalypse 2021
The Latin America Readers Books
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1 The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Robin Kirk, Orin Starn, Carlos Iván Degregori) 1995
2 The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Gilbert M. Joseph, Timothy J. Henderson) 2002
3 The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Robin Kirk, Gilbert M. Joseph, Timothy J. Henderson) 2002
4 The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Gabriela Nouzeilles, Graciela Montaldo) 2002
5 The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Pamela María Smorkaloff) 2004
6 The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Steven Palmer, Iván Molina Jiménez) 2004
7 The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Steve Striffler, Carlos De La Torre) 2008
8 The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics (With: Deborah Levenson, Elizabeth Oglesby, Deborah T. Levenson) 2011
9 The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Peter Lambert, Andrew Nickson) 2012
10 The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Thomas Miller Klubock, Nara B. Milanich, Peter Winn) 2013
11 The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren H. Derby, Raymundo González) 2014
12 The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Daryle Williams, Amy Chazkel, Paulo Knauss De Mendonca) 2015
13 The Colombia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Marco Palacios, Ana María Gómez López) 2017
14 The Lima Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Carlos Aguirre, Charles F. Walker) 2018
15 The Bolivia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Sinclair Thomson, Mark Goodale, Rossana Barragán, Xavier Albo, Seemin Qayum) 2018
16 The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: James N. Green, Victoria Langland, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz) 2019
17 The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Laurent Dubois, Kaiama L. Glover, Nadève Ménard, Millery Polyné, Chantalle F. Verna) 2020
18 The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics (By: Matthew J. Smith, Diana Paton) 2021