A Short History Of U S Interventions In Latin America And The Caribbean

Author : Alan McPherson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118953990

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A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean by Alan McPherson Pdf

A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean 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. Engages in debates about the economic, military, political, and cultural motives that shaped U.S. interventions in Cuba, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, and elsewhere Deals with incidents that range from the taking of Florida to the Mexican War, the War of 1898, the Veracruz incident of 1914, the Bay of Pigs, and the 1989 invasion of Panama Features also the responses of Latin American countries to U.S. involvement Features unique coverage of 19th century interventions as well as 20th century incidents, and includes a series of helpful maps and illustrations

Author : Alan McPherson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1529 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216158493

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Encyclopedia of U.S. Military Interventions in Latin America [2 volumes] by Alan McPherson Pdf

This unique reference shows how the United States has intervened militarily, politically, and economically in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from the early 19th century to the present day. What do baseball, American war crimes, and a slice of watermelon have in common in the annals of Latin American history? Believe it or not, this disparate grouping reflects the cultural and historical remnants of America's military and political involvement in the region. As early as 1811, the United States began intervening in the affairs of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean ... and it hasn't stopped since. This compelling reference analyzes both the major interventions and minor conflicts stemming from our nation's military operations in these areas and examines the people, places, legislation, and strategies that contributed to these events. In addition to documented facts and figures, the alphabetically organized entries in Encyclopedia of U.S. Military Interventions in Latin America present fascinating anecdotes on the subject, including why the United States once invaded Panama over a slice of watermelon, how an intervention in Nicaragua landed our country on trial for war crimes, and how the popularity of baseball in Latin America is a direct result of American influence. Primary source documents and visual aids accompany the content.

Author : Russell Crandall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521889469

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The United States and Latin America After the Cold War by Russell Crandall Pdf

This book analyzes diplomatic relations between the United States and Latin America since 1989.

Author : Lester D. Langley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0842050477

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The Banana Wars by Lester D. Langley Pdf

The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexico. In this new edition, Professor Langley provides an updated introduction, placing the scholarship in current historical context. From the perspective of the Americans involved, the empire carved out by the banana warriors was a domain of bickering Latin American politicians, warring tropical countries, and lawless societies that the American military had been dispatched to police and tutor. Beginning with the Cuban experience, Langley examines the motives and consequences of two military occupations and the impact of those interventions on a professedly antimilitaristic American government and on its colonial agents in the Caribbean, the American military. The result of the Cuban experience, Langley argues, was reinforcement of the view that the American people did not readily accept prolonged military occupation of Caribbean countries. In Nicaragua and Mexico, from 1909 to 1915, where economic and diplomatic pressures failed to bring the results desired in Washington, the American military became the political arbiters; in Hispaniola, bluejackets and marines took on the task of civilizing the tropics. In the late 1920s, with an imperial force largely of marines, the American military waged its last banana war in Nicaragua against a guerrilla leader named Augusto C. Sandino. Langley not only narrates the history of America's tropical empire, but fleshes out the personalities of this imperial era, including Leonard Wood and Fred Funston, U.S. Army, who left their mark on Cuba and Vera Cruz; William F. Fullam and William Banks Caperton, U.S. Navy, who carried out their missions imbued with old-school beliefs about their role as policemen in disorderly places; Smedley Butler and L.W.T. Waller, Sr., U.S.M.C., who left the most lasting imprint of A

Author : Gilbert Michael Joseph,Catherine LeGrand,Ricardo Donato Salvatore
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0822320991

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Close Encounters of Empire by Gilbert Michael Joseph,Catherine LeGrand,Ricardo Donato Salvatore Pdf

Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.

Author : Edwin Lieuwen
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Latin America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029096208

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U.S. Policy in Latin America by Edwin Lieuwen Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Taffet,Dustin Walcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138824283

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The United States and Latin America in the Twentieth Century by Jeffrey Taffet,Dustin Walcher Pdf

Author : Britta H. Crandall,Russell C. Crandall
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300262339

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"Our Hemisphere"? by Britta H. Crandall,Russell C. Crandall Pdf

An accessible course book on U.S.-Latin American relations “Our Hemisphere”? uncovers the range, depth, and veracity of the United States’ relationship with the Americas. Using short historical vignettes, Britta and Russell Crandall chart the course of inter‑American relations from 1776 to the present, highlighting the roles that individuals and groups of soldiers, intellectuals, private citizens, and politicians have had in shaping U.S. policy toward Latin America in the postcolonial, Cold War, and post–Cold War eras. The United States is usually and correctly seen as pursuing a monolithic, hegemonic agenda in Latin America, wielding political, economic, and military muscle to force Latin American countries to do its bidding, but the Crandalls reveal unexpected yet salient regional interactions where Latin Americans have exercised their own power with their northern and very powerful neighbor. Moreover, they show that Washington’s relationship with the region has relied, in addition to the usual heavy‑handedness, on cooperation and mutual respect since the beginning of the relationship.

Author : Alan McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195343038

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The Invaded by Alan McPherson Pdf

The Invaded explores the United States' military occupations of Nicaragua (1912-33), Haiti (1915-34), and the Dominican Republic (1916-24), proposing not only that opposition to U.S. intervention was more widespread than commonly acknowledged but that anti-imperial movements in the Caribbean basin were primarily responsible for bringing about the end of U.S. occupation.

Author : Dirk Kruijt
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783608058

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Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America by Dirk Kruijt Pdf

The Cuban revolution served as a rallying cry to people across Latin America and the Caribbean. The revolutionary regime has provided vital support to the rest of the region, offering everything from medical and development assistance to training and advice on guerrilla warfare. Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America is the first oral history of Cuba’s liberation struggle. Drawing on a vast array of original testimonies, Dirk Kruijt looks at the role of both veterans and the post-Revolution fidelista generation in shaping Cuba and the Americas. Featuring the testimonies of over sixty Cuban officials and former combatants, Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America offers unique insight into a nation which, in spite of its small size and notional pariah status, remains one of the most influential countries in the Americas.

Author : Russell Crandall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0742550486

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Gunboat Democracy by Russell Crandall Pdf

In this balanced and thought-provoking study, Russell Crandall examines the American decision to intervene militarily in three key episodes in American foreign policy: the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama. Drawing upon previously classified intelligence sources and interviews with policymakers, Crandall analyzes the complex deliberations and motives behind each intervention and shows how the decision to intervene was driven by a perceived threat to American national security. By bringing together three important cases, Gunboat Democracy makes it possible to interpret and compare these examples and study the political systems left in the wake of intervention. Particularly salient in today's foreign policy arena, this work holds important lessons for questions of regime change and democracy by force.

Author : Alan L. McPherson
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598842593

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Encyclopedia of U.S. Military Interventions in Latin America [2 Volumes] by Alan L. McPherson Pdf

This unique reference shows how the United States has intervened militarily, politically, and economically in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from the early 19th century to the present day. What do baseball, American war crimes, and a slice of watermelon have in common in the annals of Latin American history? Believe it or not, this disparate grouping reflects the cultural and historical remnants of America's military and political involvement in the region. As early as 1811, the United States began intervening in the affairs of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean ... and it hasn't stopped since. This compelling reference analyzes both the major interventions and minor conflicts stemming from our nation's military operations in these areas and examines the people, places, legislation, and strategies that contributed to these events. In addition to documented facts and figures, the alphabetically organized entries in Encyclopedia of U.S. Military Interventions in Latin America present fascinating anecdotes on the subject, including why the United States once invaded Panama over a slice of watermelon, how an intervention in Nicaragua landed our country on trial for war crimes, and how the popularity of baseball in Latin America is a direct result of American influence. Primary source documents and visual aids accompany the content. Covers all acts of involvement by the United States in Latin American affairs, including proxy wars, spying, and economic coercion Contributions from leading military experts and historians from across the globe Presents a timeline of significant events involving the region Includes important tables and charts for additional reinforcement

Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0543693023

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Address of President Roosevelt at Chicago, Illinois, April 2 1903 by Theodore Roosevelt Pdf

This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by the Government Printing Office in Washington, 1903.

Author : Stephen G. Rabe
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807876968

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U.S. Intervention in British Guiana by Stephen G. Rabe Pdf

In the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism. When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to gain independence from Britain in the 1960s, U.S. officials in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations feared it would become a communist nation under the leadership of Cheddi Jagan, a Marxist who was very popular among the South Asian (mostly Indian) majority. Although to this day the CIA refuses to confirm or deny involvement, Rabe presents evidence that CIA funding, through a program run by the AFL-CIO, helped foment the labor unrest, race riots, and general chaos that led to Jagan's replacement in 1964. The political leader preferred by the United States, Forbes Burnham, went on to lead a twenty-year dictatorship in which he persecuted the majority Indian population. Considering race, gender, religion, and ethnicity along with traditional approaches to diplomatic history, Rabe's analysis of this Cold War tragedy serves as a needed corrective to interpretations that depict the Cold War as an unsullied U.S. triumph.

Author : Eduardo Galeano
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780853459903

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Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano Pdf

[In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of ... Latin American history. [The author] shows how foreign companies reaped huge profits through their operations in Latin America. He explains the politics of the Latin American bourgeoisies and their subservience to foreign powers, and how they interacted to create increasingly unequal capitalist societies in Latin America.-Back cover.