viii, 255 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages [245]-249.
Note
Includes index.
Contents
1: The Cuban experience -- Leonard Wood and the white man's burden -- TR and the use of force -- The second Cuban intervention, 1906 -- Cuba occupied -- 2: Teach them to elect good men -- Nicaraguan menace -- The Nicaraguan War, 1910-1912 -- The Mexican crisis -- Veracruz -- The rulers of Veracruz -- 3: Civilizing the tropics -- Turbulent Hispaniola -- The pacification of Hispaniola: 1 -- The pacification of Hispaniola: 2 -- 4: The last banana war -- Interregnum, 1921-1925 -- The second Nicaraguan Civil War, 1925-1927 -- The Sandino chase -- The last banana war.
