Lester D. Langley is the author of numerous books about the relationship of the United States with Latin America and the Caribbean. He also serves as general editor of the University of Georgia Press Series, 'The United States and the Americas.'

We are bombarded today by ill-founded polemics written by instant specialists on the Central American Caribbean areas, and—perhaps needlessly—I would stress that Langley's work is careful and it is fair. It will make the handiest of supplemental readings.

• Part 1 I The Cuban Experience Chapter 2 Leonard Wood and the White Man's Burden Chapter 3 TR and the Use of Force Chapter 4 The Second Cuban Intervention, 1906 Chapter 5 Cuba Occupied Part 6 II Teach them to Elect Good Men Chapter 7 The Nicaraguan Menace Chapter 8 The Nicaraguan War, 1910–1912 Chapter 9 The Mexican Crisis Chapter 10 Veracruz Chapter 11 The Rulers of Veracruz Part 12 III Civilizing the Tropics Chapter 13 Turbulent Hispaniola Chapter 14 The Pacification of Hispaniola: 1 Chapter 15 The Pacification of Hispaniola: 2 Part 16 IV The Last Banana War Chapter 17 Interregnum, 1921–1925 Chapter 18 The Second Nicaraguan Civil War, 1925–1927 Chapter 19 The Sandino Chase Chapter 20 The Last Banana War

Lester D. Langley is the author of numerous books about the relationship of the United States with Latin America and the Caribbean. He also serves as general editor of the University of Georgia Press Series, 'The United States and the Americas.'

We are bombarded today by ill-founded polemics written by instant specialists on the Central American Caribbean areas, and—perhaps needlessly—I would stress that Langley's work is careful and it is fair. It will make the handiest of supplemental readings.

• Part 1 I The Cuban Experience Chapter 2 Leonard Wood and the White Man's Burden Chapter 3 TR and the Use of Force Chapter 4 The Second Cuban Intervention, 1906 Chapter 5 Cuba Occupied Part 6 II Teach them to Elect Good Men Chapter 7 The Nicaraguan Menace Chapter 8 The Nicaraguan War, 1910–1912 Chapter 9 The Mexican Crisis Chapter 10 Veracruz Chapter 11 The Rulers of Veracruz Part 12 III Civilizing the Tropics Chapter 13 Turbulent Hispaniola Chapter 14 The Pacification of Hispaniola: 1 Chapter 15 The Pacification of Hispaniola: 2 Part 16 IV The Last Banana War Chapter 17 Interregnum, 1921–1925 Chapter 18 The Second Nicaraguan Civil War, 1925–1927 Chapter 19 The Sandino Chase Chapter 20 The Last Banana War

Lester D. Langley is the author of numerous books about the relationship of the United States with Latin America and the Caribbean. He also serves as general editor of the University of Georgia Press Series, 'The United States and the Americas.'

We are bombarded today by ill-founded polemics written by instant specialists on the Central American Caribbean areas, and—perhaps needlessly—I would stress that Langley's work is careful and it is fair. It will make the handiest of supplemental readings.

• Part 1 I The Cuban Experience Chapter 2 Leonard Wood and the White Man's Burden Chapter 3 TR and the Use of Force Chapter 4 The Second Cuban Intervention, 1906 Chapter 5 Cuba Occupied Part 6 II Teach them to Elect Good Men Chapter 7 The Nicaraguan Menace Chapter 8 The Nicaraguan War, 1910–1912 Chapter 9 The Mexican Crisis Chapter 10 Veracruz Chapter 11 The Rulers of Veracruz Part 12 III Civilizing the Tropics Chapter 13 Turbulent Hispaniola Chapter 14 The Pacification of Hispaniola: 1 Chapter 15 The Pacification of Hispaniola: 2 Part 16 IV The Last Banana War Chapter 17 Interregnum, 1921–1925 Chapter 18 The Second Nicaraguan Civil War, 1925–1927 Chapter 19 The Sandino Chase Chapter 20 The Last Banana War