The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898D1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S
This compelling biography offers a unique perspective on the life and career of one of Latin America's most famous—and most adulated—historical figures. Departing from the conventional, narrow treatme
Langley (formerly of the U. of Georgia history department) examines the history of U.S. imperial ambitions in the Caribbean during the period of time that gave birth to the term "gunboat diplomacy." F
In this completely revised and updated edition of America and the Americas, Lester D. Langley covers the long period from the colonial era into the twenty-first century, providing an interpretive intr
Ambitious entrepreneurs, isthmian politicians, and mercenaries who dramatically altered Central America's political culture, economies, and even its traditional social values populate this lively stor
In March 2000, historians of Latin America gathered at Brown University, for a conference on the Liberator Bolivar (1783-1830), looking at him as a political and social thinker and as a political acto
