Jane M. Rausch is professor emerita of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and is the author or editor of nine books. She has also been a contributing editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies since 1985.

Jane Rausch's study of Colombia, a somewhat precariously neutral Latin American country, is an important contribution to [the study of World War I] . . . Rausch is an acknowledged authority on Colombia and the frontier regions of the capitalist era around Latin America. . . .This study shows in new detail the Colombian elite's perspective on the process by which the United States took the opportunity of wartime conditions across the Atlantic. . . .Rausch's account is fluently written, and it includes several apt cartoons from the war years. It adds an important national dimension to the growing literature on Latin America in those years in the setting of global events.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Colombia in 1914Chapter 2: Europe in Flames: The Concha Administration and the Outbreak of World War I:August 1914–August 1915Chapter 3: Staying the Course: Diplomatic and Economic Developments: August 1915–April 1917Chapter 4: New Challenges: U.S. Declaration of War on Germany and the Controversial Accession of Suárez to the Presidency: April 1917–November 1918Chapter 5: Collateral Damage: The Aftermath of the War: November 1918–November 1921ConclusionAnnex 1: Statement of “The Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War On Land,” adopted by the Hague Convention, 1907Annex 2: Thomson-Urrutia Treat, 1914

Jane M. Rausch is professor emerita of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and is the author or editor of nine books. She has also been a contributing editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies since 1985.

Jane Rausch's study of Colombia, a somewhat precariously neutral Latin American country, is an important contribution to [the study of World War I] . . . Rausch is an acknowledged authority on Colombia and the frontier regions of the capitalist era around Latin America. . . .This study shows in new detail the Colombian elite's perspective on the process by which the United States took the opportunity of wartime conditions across the Atlantic. . . .Rausch's account is fluently written, and it includes several apt cartoons from the war years. It adds an important national dimension to the growing literature on Latin America in those years in the setting of global events.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Colombia in 1914Chapter 2: Europe in Flames: The Concha Administration and the Outbreak of World War I:August 1914–August 1915Chapter 3: Staying the Course: Diplomatic and Economic Developments: August 1915–April 1917Chapter 4: New Challenges: U.S. Declaration of War on Germany and the Controversial Accession of Suárez to the Presidency: April 1917–November 1918Chapter 5: Collateral Damage: The Aftermath of the War: November 1918–November 1921ConclusionAnnex 1: Statement of “The Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War On Land,” adopted by the Hague Convention, 1907Annex 2: Thomson-Urrutia Treat, 1914