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The first single-volume work to examine, country by country, the history of U.S. involvement in 24 Latin American and Caribbean nations.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Trinidad and Tobago
Uruguay
Venezuela
Glossary
Appendix: The Monroe Doctrine
Index

About the Author

DAVID W. DENT is Professor of Political Science at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the co-author of Historical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations (1998), the editor of U.S. Latin-American Policymaking: A Reference Handbook (Greenwood, 1995), and Handbook of Political Science Research on Latin America: Trends from the 1960s to the 1990s (Greenwood, 1990), and the author of numerous articles and essays. For the past twenty-five years he has been a contributing editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies, a biannual reference book published by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.

Reviews

?A useful supplementary volume in general libraries and a necessity in libraries with collections on Latin America.?-American Reference Books Annual

?Dent has created an informative, readable reference work by writing in a clear style and using charts, tables, and occasional editorial cartoons. It is well suited to introduce high school and undergraduate students to the complexities of US-Latin America relations. Highly recommended.?-Choice

"A useful supplementary volume in general libraries and a necessity in libraries with collections on Latin America."-American Reference Books Annual

"Dent has created an informative, readable reference work by writing in a clear style and using charts, tables, and occasional editorial cartoons. It is well suited to introduce high school and undergraduate students to the complexities of US-Latin America relations. Highly recommended."-Choice