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Beneath the United States : a history of U.S. policy toward Latin America /

"Excellent and well-written history of US foreign policy toward Latin America emphasizes often depreciative view that Washington statesmen had of their neighbors to the south. Based on extensive research of correspondence, speeches, and other foreign policy-related statements. Useful for specia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schoultz, Lars
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Encountering Latin America
  • 2. Acquiring Northern Mexico
  • 3. Struggling over slavery in the Caribbean
  • 4. Ending an era: regional hegemony over a defective people
  • 5. Beginning a new era: the imperial mentality
  • 6. Testing the imperial waters: confronting Chile
  • 7. Excluding Great Britain: the Venezuela boundary dispute
  • 8. Establishing an empire: Cuba and the war with Spain
  • 9. Creating a country, building a canal
  • 10. Chastising chronic wrongdoing
  • 11. Providing benevolent supervision: dollar diplomacy
  • 12. Continuing to help in the most practical way possible
  • 13. Removing the marines, installing the puppets
  • 14. Establishing the foundations of honorable intercourse
  • 15. Becoming a good neighbor
  • 16. Attacking dictatorships
  • 17. Combatting Communism with friendly dictators
  • 18. Combatting Communism with economic development
  • 19. Two centuries later.