Bibliograph

Thy will be done, the conquest of the amazon, Gerard Colby, Charlotte Dennett, and Mark Crispin Miller

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Thy will be done, the conquest of the amazon, Gerard Colby, Charlotte Dennett, and Mark Crispin Miller

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Thy will be done

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Gerard Colby, Charlotte Dennett, and Mark Crispin Miller

Sub title

the conquest of the amazon

Summary

What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive governments, devastate the Amazon rain forest, and destabilize local economies-all in the name of anti-Communism. Meanwhile, Townsend and his army of missionaries sought to undermine the belief systems of the region's indigenous peoples and convert them to Christianity. Their combined efforts would have tragic and long-lasting repercussions, argue the authors of this book-the product of eighteen years of research

Target audience

adult

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