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The Banana Wars - United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 (Paperback, Revised)
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The Banana Wars - United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 (Paperback, Revised)
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The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean,
1898-1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire
in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative
of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexico. In this
new edition, Professor Langley provides an updated introduction,
placing the scholarship in current historical context. From the
perspective of the Americans involved, the empire carved out by the
banana warriors was a domain of bickering Latin American
politicians, warring tropical countries, and lawless societies that
the American military had been dispatched to police and tutor.
Beginning with the Cuban experience, Langley examines the motives
and consequences of two military occupations and the impact of
those interventions on a professedly antimilitaristic American
government and on its colonial agents in the Caribbean, the
American military. The result of the Cuban experience, Langley
argues, was reinforcement of the view that the American people did
not readily accept prolonged military occupation of Caribbean
countries. In Nicaragua and Mexico, from 1909 to 1915, where
economic and diplomatic pressures failed to bring the results
desired in Washington, the American military became the political
arbiters; in Hispaniola, bluejackets and marines took on the task
of civilizing the tropics. In the late 1920s, with an imperial
force largely of marines, the American military waged its last
banana war in Nicaragua against a guerrilla leader named Augusto C.
Sandino. Langley not only narrates the history of America's
tropical empire, but fleshes out the personalities of this imperial
era, including Leonard Wood and Fred Funston, U.S. Army, who left
their mark on Cuba and Vera Cruz; William F. Fullam and William
Banks Caperton, U.S. Navy, who carried out their missions imbued
with old-school beliefs about their role as policemen in disorderly
places; Smedley Butler and L.W.T. Waller, Sr., U.S.M.C., who left
the most lasting imprint of A
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