| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Imágenes de un imperio: Estados Unidos y las formas de representación de América Latina (Images of an empire: The United States and the forms of representation of Latin America). By Ricardo D. Salvatore. (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 2006. 192 pp. Paper, ISBN 950-07-2720-X.) In Spanish.

Ricardo D. Salvatore observes that he never tires of reiterating that "in order to explore and develop the resources of a region it was necessary first to know the land profoundly" (p. 34). Salvatore, a professor of modern history at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, examines how U.S. citizens represented or constructed Latin America from 1890 to 1945. He chose that period, because it was an era of vast U.S. cultural and economic expansion throughout Latin America. Salvatore follows philanthropists, advertisers, engineers, archaeologists, ethnographers, and scientists who traveled to the region. As the author sees it, those adventurers sought to "discover" Latin America for United States citizens. They wiped away the notion that Latin America was dangerous, impenetrable terra incognita. They took advantage of new technologies, communicating to the masses through maps, photographs, illustrated magazines, and romantic novels. They displayed their findings at natural history museums and world's fairs. They succeeded in inserting Latin America into the orbit of North American collective knowledge.

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