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Author Schoultz, Lars

Title Beneath the United States : a history of U.S. policy toward Latin America / Lars Schoultz
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 476 pages) : maps
Contents 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
Summary "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 specialists, undergraduates, and anyone interested in US/Latin American relations"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-459) and index
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Subject Politicians -- United States -- Attitudes
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations
Diplomatic relations -- Philosophy
Politicians -- Attitudes
Buitenlandse politiek.
SUBJECT Latin America -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074894
United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140114
United States -- Foreign relations -- Moral and ethical aspects
United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88003959
Subject Latin America
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674043282
0674043286