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The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America is a comprehensive yet concise analysis of U.S. policies in Latin America during ... More

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In this remarkable and engaging book, William LeoGrande offers the first comprehensive history of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America in the ... More

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An eye-opening examination of Latin America's role as proving ground for U.S. imperial strategies and tactics In recent years, one book after ... More

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President Monroe's 1823 declaration on U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere quickly became a keystone document. But in the years after World War II, ... More

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In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually ... More

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On the seventeenth of July, 1979, the dictator Anastasio Somoza left Nicaragua after forty-five years. Finally, the family that had ruled and owned ... More

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A well-respected and widely used book in undergraduate and graduate courses that stresses the relations between the United States and the nations of ... More

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"Dan Saxon has written a compelling and provocative book about the checkered history of United States involvement in Guatemala and the politics of ... More

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Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy presents a wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis of the most significant economic-aid program of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy ... More

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After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a new international regime emerged and profoundly transformed inter-American affairs. In the third ... More

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Jorge I. Dominguez has brought together experts from Latin America, the Caribbean and the US to explore transnational aspects of crime, migration, ... More

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Providing a balanced and interdisciplinary interpretation, this comprehensive reader traces the troubled U.S. Latin American relationship from the ... More

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Drawing on declassified documents and extensive firsthand research, "The Politics of Cocaine "takes a hard look at the role the United States played ... More

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Drawing on the research and experience of fifteen internationally recognized Latin America scholars, this insightful text presents an overview of ... More

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In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the formation of the Alliance for Progress, a program dedicated to creating prosperous, socially ... More

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This book analyzes the political, economic, and strategic impact of the Bush Doctrine on Latin America.

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This book is a succinct overview of the history of US-Brazilian relations over the past two decades. Monica Hirst considers economic relations ... More

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In this remarkable and revealing tale, noted journalist Clymer shows how the decision to give up the Panama Canal stirred emotions already rubbed raw ... More

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Drawing on rich archival sources, political scientist and Latin America scholar Lars Schoultz argues that the United States, from the time of John ... More

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Retired U.S. Foreign Service officer Henry Butterfield Ryan shows conclusively that the U.S. government neither killed Che Guevara nor ordered him ... More

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The United States has a long history of sending troops to intervene in other nations. This volume concerns itself with how those decisions are made, ... More

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Sidney Weintraub examines the current relationship of Mexico and the United States as one of sustained dependence and dominance. The chapters examine ... More

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Perhaps no world leader is better placed to challenge the global authority of the United States than Hugo Chavez, the populist leader of Venezuela. ... More

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Providing a balanced, interdisciplinary interpretation, this comprehensive text reader traces the troubled U.S.DLatin American relationship from the ... More

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