A comparative history of three revolutions in the Americas is provided by this work: the American Revolution in 1776; the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti; and the prolonged Spanish American struggle for independence that ended 50 years later.
Ambitious entrepreneurs, isthmian politicians, and mercenaries who dramatically altered Central America's political culture, economies, and even its traditional social values populate this lively story of a generation of North and Central Americans and their roles in the transformation of Central America from the late nineteenth century until the ...
In this work, historian Lester Langley offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the modern Western hemisphere since the mid-19th century. He evaluates the dynamics of hemispheric history, commencing with the articulation of the "two Americas" (Theodore Roosevelt's America and the contrasting America described by Cuban revolutionary, ...
"America is a hemisphere to itself."--Thomas Jefferson"As to an American system, we have it; we constitute the whole of it; there is no community of interests or of principles between North and South America."--John Quincy AdamsFrom its inception as the first democratic nation of the New World, the United States has envisioned, in the words of ...
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 ...
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