Illustrations and Maps | p. xi |
Preface | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Abbreviations | p. xxi |
Introduction: What Were the Causes for War in Twentieth-Century Latin America? | p. xxiii |
Political Intervention by the United States | |
The Giving and the Taking of Panama, 1903 | p. 1 |
An Early Twentieth-Century Boundary Dispute | |
The Acre War, 1903 | p. 7 |
Early Twentieth-Century Interclass Revolution and Religious War | |
The Mexican Revolution, 1910-20 | p. 11 |
The Cristero Rebellion, 1926-29 | p. 29 |
An Extrahemispheric War | |
World War I and Brazil, 1917-18 | p. 35 |
Economic Interventions by the United States | |
Haiti, 1915-34 | p. 41 |
The Dominican Republic, 1916-24 | p. 48 |
Nicaragua, 1927-33 | p. 55 |
Interclass Struggles | |
Naval Mutinies, 1910-31 | p. 73 |
International Communist Subversion, 1928-35 | p. 78 |
Major Boundary Disputes between the World Wars | |
The Chaco War, 1932-35 | p. 85 |
The Leticia Dispute, 1932-33 | p. 109 |
Ecuador and Peru, 1941, 1981, and 1995 | p. 114 |
Mid-Twentieth-Century Intraclass Wars | |
Forging Modern Brazil, 1922-32 | p. 127 |
The Peruvian Senior Military versus the Apristas, 1930-68 | p. 133 |
The Argentine Senior Military versus Peronismo, 1951-66 | p. 145 |
Another Extrahemispheric War | |
World War II, Brazil and Mexico, 1942-45 | p. 161 |
Post-World War II Intraclass Wars | |
Central America and the Caribbean, 1944-54 | p. 173 |
Paraguay, 1947 | p. 185 |
Colombia, La Violencia, 1948-64 | p. 189 |
The Early Cold War Struggles | |
Colombia in Korea, 1950-53 | p. 197 |
The Guatemalan Revolution, 1954 | p. 201 |
Mid-Twentieth-Century Interclass Revolutions | |
The Bolivian Revolution, 1952 | p. 207 |
The Cuban Revolution, 1956-59 | p. 215 |
The Venezuela Revolution, 1958 | p. 229 |
Early Cold War Intraclass Conflicts | |
The Year of the Pre-Foco Follies, 1959 | p. 237 |
Military Operations by Cuban Exiles, 1960-65 | p. 243 |
Venezuela--Reactionary Right and Radical Left, 1960-62 | p. 255 |
The Era of the Early Foco Wars, 1962-65 | p. 265 |
The Era of the Late Foco Wars, 1965-74 | p. 278 |
Urban Guerrilla Wars, 1963-76 | p. 289 |
Cold War Border Disputes | |
The "Soccer War," 1969 | p. 301 |
The Malvinas (Falkland) Islands, 1982 | p. 307 |
Late Cold War Intraclass Conflicts | |
Chile and the Overthrow of Allende, 1973 | p. 319 |
Cuban Troops in Africa, 1960-91 | p. 327 |
The Era of Fidel's Legacy, 1974-91 | p. 339 |
Peru: The Shining Path, 1980-92 | p. 360 |
An Economic War | |
Colombia's Drug War, 1982-2001 | p. 373 |
Postscript: What Were the Surprises? | p. 385 |
Notes | p. 387 |
Index to Full Bibliographical Citations | p. 491 |
Index | p. 505 |
About the Author | p. 531 |
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