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

• Autore: McPherson Alan
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2016; 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.7308
• Soggetto geografico: Latin America Foreign relations United States; United States Foreign relations Caribbean Area; United States Foreign relations Latin America
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Topic and Themes; The Topic; Themes: The Five C's; Notes; Chapter 1 Expanding the Continental Republic, 1811-1897; The First Ever Landing: Sally and the Sandwich, 1800; The No Transfer Resolution, 1811; The First Seminole War, 1814-1819; The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny; The Mexican War, 1846-1848; Filibusters, 1850's; The Bombing of San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, 1854; Notes; Chapter 2 The Cuban Crucible: Experiments in Overseas Empire, 1898-1922 ; The White Man's Burden (and Other Justifications for Empire)The War of 1898; The First Cuban Occupation, 1899-1902; The Roosevelt Corollary; The Second Cuban Occupation, 1906-1909; The Cuban Intervention of 1912; The Third Cuban Occupation, 1917-1922; Notes; Chapter 3 Monopolizing the Central American Isthmus, 1903-1926; Panama 1903; Dollar Diplomacy; Nicaragua, 1909-1925; Notes; Chapter 4 Wilsonian Interventions, 1913-1919; Veracuz, 1914; Haiti, 1915-1919; Dominican Republic, 1916-1919; The Punitive Expedition, 1916-1917; Notes; Chapter 5 Accommodation and Resistance, 1917-1930 ; Dominican Republic, 1917-1924 Haiti, 1917-1930; Nicaragua, 1927-1928; Notes; Chapter 6 From Occupier to Good Neighbor, 1921-1936; Nonintervention from Harding to Roosevelt; Nicaragua, 1928-1933; Haiti, 1930-1934; Cuba, 1933-1934; Panama, 1936-1939; Notes; Chapter 7 Warding Off Global Ideologies, 1935-1954; A New Continental Security; World War II Interventions; The Cold War Inter-American System; Guatemala, 1954; Notes; Chapter 8 Containing Revolution, 1959-1990; Cuba, 1961; Dominican Republic, 1965-1966; Support for Military Régimes; Nicaragua, 1979-1990; Grenada, 1983; Notes ; Chapter 9 Identifying Post-Cold War Political Threats, 1986-2016 Panama, 1989; Haiti, 1994; Haiti, 2004; The Drug Wars, 1972-2016; Notes; Conclusion: Multitudes of Interventions; Humanitarianism v. Revenge; Economics v. Politics; Direct v. Indirect; Unilateral v. Multilateral; Legal v. Illegal; Bibliography; Index; EULA
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A short history of U.S interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean
• ISBN: 1-118-95401-7; 1-118-95400-9; 1-118-95402-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810163303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Viewpoints/puntos de vista.