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This 4 page paper reviews author Stephen Kinzer's contentions that the US has a long involvement in regime overthrows and this involvement extends around the world. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Stephen Kinzer explores the United States role in regime changes through the world. Kinzer contends that, starting with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893, the US has
had a long history of playing a critical role in overthrowing various world regimes. Kinzers book provides adequate detail to support the thesis that the United States has intervened
in countless affairs around the world for the purpose of effecting regime change so that she herself could profit. Kinzer
divides his book into three sections, The Imperial Era, Covert Action and Invasions. He provides several examples for each section of how the US was instrumental in regime overthrow.
Hawaii, of course, falls within the imperial era. Kinzer does an excellent job of illuminating why the US wanted to effect a regime overthrow in Hawaii
and how it went about doing it. He points out that this was the first example ever of the US doing such a thing to a foreign government.
Kinzer concentrates, however, primarily on Hawaiis value to US interests because of the sugar trade. In fact Hawaii was extremely valuable from a military perspective as well as because
of many other natural resources it contained. The Hawaiian Islands had been first visited by Europeans only the century
before, by Captain James Cook in 1778. The native people of Hawaii were subject to constant warfare between one king or another. In 1810, however, Kamehameha I had
taken control of the islands and peace was restored. As an added benefit of the Kamehameha reign, agriculture and commerce began
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