A short history of U.S. interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean / Alan McPherson.

Author: McPherson, Alan L. author.

Imprint:Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley/Blackwell, 2016.

Descriptionxii, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Note:Expanding the Continental Republic, 1811-1897 -- The Cuban crucible: experiments in overseas empire, 1898-1922 -- Monopolizing the Central American Isthmus, 1903-1926 -- Wilsonian interventions, 1913-1919 -- Accommodation and resistance, 1917-1930 -- From occupier to good neighbor, 1921-1936 -- Warding off global ideologies, 1935-1954 -- Containing revolution, 1959-1990 -- Identifying post-Cold War political threats, 1986-2016.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"Presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions and interventions in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day. For each era, author looks at five elements: causes, consequences, contestation, collaboration, and context to shed light on the economic, military, political, and cultural issues that have shaped U.S.-Latin America relations."--Page 4 of cover.

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