Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean

Alan McPherson is Professor of International and Area Studies, ConocoPhillips Chair in Latin American Studies, and Director of the Center for the Americas at the University of Oklahoma. He has published eight books, including the prize-winning Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations (2003) and The Invaded: How Latin Americans and their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations (2014).

"Alan McPherson has written a clear, succinct, and engaging account of the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is a synthesis aimed at classroom use, and will work admirably in that regard.... McPherson has produced a worthy and accessible addition to the available textbooks on U.S.-Latin American relations."—Gregory Weeks, The Latin Americanist, Vol. 61, No. 2

• Series Editor’s Preface viiiAcknowledgments xList of Illustrations xiIntroduction: Topic and Themes 11 Expanding the Continental Republic, 1811–1897 102 The Cuban Crucible: Experiments in Overseas Empire, 1898–1922 343 Monopolizing the Central American Isthmus, 1903–1926 554 Wilsonian Interventions, 1913–1919 725 Accommodation and Resistance, 1917–1930 956 From Occupier to Good Neighbor, 1921–1936 1157 Warding Off Global Ideologies, 1935–1954 1338 Containing Revolution, 1959–1990 1489 Identifying Post]Cold War Political Threats, 1986–2016 172Conclusion: Multitudes of Interventions 194Bibliography 202Index 209