A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean (Hardcover)

Series Editor’s Preface viii

Acknowledgments x

List of Illustrations xi

Introduction: Topic and Themes 1

1 Expanding the Continental Republic, 1811–1897 10

2 The Cuban Crucible: Experiments in Overseas Empire, 1898–1922 34

3 Monopolizing the Central American Isthmus, 1903–1926 55

4 Wilsonian Interventions, 1913–1919 72

5 Accommodation and Resistance, 1917–1930 95

6 From Occupier to Good Neighbor, 1921–1936 115

7 Warding Off Global Ideologies, 1935–1954 133

8 Containing Revolution, 1959–1990 148

9 Identifying Posti¿½]Cold War Political Threats, 1986–2016 172

Conclusion: Multitudes of Interventions 194

Bibliography 202

Index 209