Introduction

latitude and altitude

Territorial problems of North America and the No-transfer resolution of 1811 (1776-1811)

The United States and the independence of Latin America (1815-1822)

Diplomatic background of the Monroe Doctrine (1815-1823)

Pronouncement and effect of the Monroe Doctrine (1823-1826)

The manifest destiny of continental expansion (1823-1860)

Development of the Monroe Doctrine (1826-1895)

The advent of imperialism (1895-1899)

The Roosevelt corollary and dollar diplomacy (1899-1913)

Woodrow Wilson and Mexico (1913-1917)

The Latin American policy of Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)

The Republican restoration and the liquidation of imperialism (1921-1933)

The doctrine of nonintervention and the codification of American international law (1890-1917)

The Rio Commission of Jurists and the Havana Pan American Conference (1917-1929)

The good neighbor at Montevideo (1933)

The triumph of absolute nonintervention (1933-1937)

The new reciprocity (1933-1942)

The exchange of culture and humanity

Dollar diplomacy in reverse (1929-1941)

The myth of economic imperialism

Munich, Lima, and Panama (1938-1940)

One for all and almost all for one (1940-1942)

Conclusion: an act of faith.