Neighborly adversaries : readings in U.S.-Latin American relations / edited by Michael J. LaRosa and Frank O. Mora.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

LaRosa, Michael (Michael J.), editor.

Mora, Frank O., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin America--Foreign relations--United States.

Latin America.

International relations.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Latin America.

Diplomatic relations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 375 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Summary:

This thoroughly revised and updated reader traces the relationship between the United States and Latin America from the early nineteenth century to the present. Methodologically interdisciplinary, yet comparative and historical, this collection will benefit all readers interested in the complex and ever-evolving "American" relationship. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: contentious neighbors in the western hemisphere / Michael LaRosa and Frank O. Mora

Part I. Disparate perceptions: expansionism versus arielism

The Anglo-Saxon and the world's future / Josiah Strong

Our America / José Martí

Mark Twain / Philip Foner

Ariel / José Enrique Rodó

Part II. The Monroe Doctrine and origins of US expansionism

The Monroe Doctrine, 1823-1826 / Dexter Perkins

The Platt Amendment of 1901

The real Monroe Doctrine / Elihu Root

Autopsy of the Monroe doctrine: the strange story of inter-American relations / Gaston Nerval

Part III. From TR to FDR: interventionism and the good neighbor policy

Leonard Wood and the white man's burden / Lester D. Langley

Development of the Panama policy in the Caribbean and Central America (1902-1936) / Samuel Flagg Bemis

An address to Congress on the Mexican Crisis (April 20, 1914) / Woodrow Wilson

The making of the Good Neighbor Policy / Bryce Wood

Part IV. Cold War arrives in Latin America

The impact of the Cold War on U.S.-Latin American relations, 1945-1949 / Roger R Trask

Latin America as a problem in U.S. foreign policy / George Kennan

The hovering giant: U.S. responses to revolutionary change in Latin America / Cole Blasier

Did Eisenhower push Castro into the arms of the Soviets? / Alan Luxenberg

Part V. Conflicting aims in the U.S.-Latin relations: the late 20th century

The alliance that lost its way: a critical report on the Alliance for Progess / Jerome Levinson and Juan de Onis

U.S.-Latin America trade: recent trends and policy issues / J.F. Hornbeck

Drug trafficking and organized crime in the Americas: major trends in the 21st century / Bruce Bagley

Part VI. Contemporary policy trends: in U.S.-Latin American relations

Post-Cold War U.S. Latin American policy: the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations / Frank O. Mora

Environmental concerns facing the US and Mexico: an international perspective / Matthew C. LaFevor

Waiting on reform: a brief history of U.S.-Latin American immigration / Lance R. Ingwersen and Michael J. LaRosa

Part VII. Contemporary culture trends: U.S.-Latin American relations enter the 21st century

Unfulfilled promises: Mexico's complicated century of soccer / Joshua H. Nadel

No mere backyard: Latin American television from dictatorship to democracy / Andrew Paxman

Safe travels: tourism and security in post-insurgency Peru / Teresa E.P. Delfín

By way of conclusion: neither neighborly nor adversarial: an evolving American relationship / by the editors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442226456

1442226455

9781442226463

1442226463

OCLC:

904335141

Publisher Number:

40024773923