Brazil and the United States during World War II and Its Aftermath N
The military alliance between the United States and Brazil played a critical role in the outcome of World War II, and yet it is largely overlooked in historiography of the war. In this definitive account, Frank McCann investigates Brazilian-American milit
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U N I T E D S TAT E S DURING
WORLD WAR II A N D I T S A F T E R M AT H
Negotiating Alliance and Balancing Giants
FRANK D. McCANN
Brazil and the United States during World War II and Its Aftermath
Frank D. McCann
Brazil and the United States during World War II and Its Aftermath Negotiating Alliance and Balancing Giants
Frank D. McCann University of New Hampshire Durham, NH, USA
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This book is dedicated to Diane Marie who made it possible.
Preface
This book grew from conference papers and lectures that I gave over a number of years. My interest in the subject began in Professor Robert H. Ferrell’s diplomatic history seminar at Indiana University. In this project, originally I wanted to do a brief study of the negotiations that led to the alliance between Brazil and the United States. But the deeper I went, the more it became clear that it was the very nature of those relations to be continually negotiating their contents, goals, and mutual responsibilities. As in my other studies, I have tried to keep a certain distance from the two sides and to tell the story from both Brazilian and American perspectives. To do so was, of course, dependent on having documentation from both that shed light on the same events. That was not always possible, but it was my goal. This project studying negotiations and the gradual building of trust was insp
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