The Banana Wars United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934

by Langley, Lester D.

• ISBN13: 9780842050470
• ISBN10: 0842050477
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The Cuban Experience
Leonard Wood and the White Man's Burden	p. 3
TR and the Use of Force	p. 13
The Second Cuban Intervention, 1906	p. 27
Cuba Occupied	p. 37
Teach Them to Elect Good Men
The Nicaraguan Menace	p. 49
The Nicaraguan War, 1910-1912	p. 59
The Mexican Crisis	p. 71
Veracruz	p. 85
The Rulers of Veracruz	p. 97
Civilizing the Tropics
Turbulent Hispaniola	p. 111
The Pacification of Hispaniola: 1	p. 127
The Pacification of Hispaniola: 2	p. 143
The Last Banana War
Interregnum, 1921-1925	p. 161
The Second Nicaraguan Civil War, 1925-1927	p. 175
The Sandino Chase	p. 187
The Last Banana War	p. 199
Epilogue	p. 213
Notes	p. 221
Bibliographical Note	p. 249
Index	p. 255
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