San Antonio College Library

The United States has been more consistently involved in the Caribbean basin than any other area in the world. Forming part of the U.S. southern frontier, the region has been central to the definition of America's national interests - interests that predate its independence by at least a century. The great inland water transportation system flowing from the Ohio, the Tennessee, the Arkansas, and other rivers into the Mississippi in effect makes the...

"Ideal for student research and debate, this is the first single-volume reference work to examine, country by country, the history of U.S. involvement in 24 Latin American and Caribbean nations since the Monroe Doctrine in 1823. Each country and its relations with the United States is analyzed succinctly in an individual chapter. Dent, a noted expert on inter-American relations, organizes each chapter around major themes that illuminate both historical...