Don M. Coerver
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"The U.S.-Mexican border has become an increasingly important subject of study. Coerver and Hall have added to this literature by producing a well-researched and well-written monograph of the border within the context of state and federal government policies during the Mexican Revolution. That conflict, with its threat to both the security and sovereignty of Texas and the United States, generated disputes over which policies and roles should be carried...
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An imbalance of power and a sense of unresolved tension have long plagued relations between the United States and Latin America. This book offers an important new synthesis of that complex relationship by studying how actions and policies of the United States have been interpreted and played out in Latin America.
Beginning with the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, the United States unilaterally asserted right to protect the hemisphere against foreign intervention....