The banana wars : United States intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 / Lester D. Langley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langley, Lester D.

Series:

Latin American silhouettes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Caribbean Area--Foreign relations--United States.

Caribbean Area.

International relations.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Caribbean Area.

United States--Military policy.

Military policy.

Caribbean Area--History--20th century.

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

Physical Description:

xx, 265 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, [2002]

Summary:

The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 18981934 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 Mexi

Contents:

Part I The Cuban Experience

Chapter 1 Leonard Wood and the White Man's Burden 3

Chapter 2 TR and the Use of Force 13

Chapter 3 The Second Cuban Intervention, 1906 27

Chapter 4 Cuba Occupied 37

Part II Teach Them to Elect Good Men

Chapter 5 The Nicaraguan Menace 49

Chapter 6 The Nicaraguan War, 1910-1912 59

Chapter 7 The Mexican Crisis 71

Chapter 8 Veracruz 85

Chapter 9 The Rulers of Veracruz 97

Part III Civilizing the Tropics

Chapter 10 Turbulent Hispaniola 111

Chapter 11 The Pacification of Hispaniola: 1 127

Chapter 12 The Pacification of Hispaniola: 2 143

Part IV The Last Banana War

Chapter 13 Interregnum, 1921-1925 161

Chapter 14 The Second Nicaraguan Civil War, 1925-1927 175

Chapter 15 The Sandino Chase 187

Chapter 16 The Last Banana War 199.

Notes:

Originally published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1983.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0842050469

0842050477

OCLC:

48014576