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Borders and bridges : a history of U.S.-Latin American relations

The symbiotic relationship between the US and Latin America has been filled with bitterness and anguish at its worst, and hope and cooperation at its best. This book offers an introduction to the important events in the diplomatic, military, social, and economic history of the relationship between the United States and countries of Latin America.
eBook, English, 2006
Praeger Security International, Westport, Conn., 2006
1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages) : map
9780313083471, 0313083479
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Foundations and perceptions
The European Enlightenment and the birth of U.S.-Latin American relations
The independence movements in Spanish Latin America and Brazil
The Monroe Doctrine, manifest destiny, and the Mexican war
Nineteenth-century U.S. imperialism and the Spanish American war
Gunboat diplomacy, Panama, and the New World policeman
The Great Depression, the good neighbor policy, and World War II
The Cold War, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
The end of nonintervention and the end of the Cold War
Crossing the threshold of a new century
A chronology of U.S.-Latin American relations
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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