The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine 1945-1993 - Hardcover

Smith, Gaddis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809064758 ISBN 13: 9780809064755

Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub, 1994

Synopsis

"This epilogue to well-known history of Monroe Doctrine is a provocative interpretation of how US presidents resolved policy contradiction of accepting Soviet presence in the Caribbean while reaffirming tenets of Monroe Doctrine"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Criticizes American foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere, especially its support for repressive regimes

About this title

From the Back Cover:

When president James Monroe issued his 1823 doctrine that the United States would brook no foreign intervention in our hemisphere, it quickly became as sacred to Americans as the Declaration of independence and the Constitution. But in the years after World War II-notably in Guatemala in 1954, in Brazil in 1963, in Chile in 1973, and in El Salvador in the 1980s-the U.S. government's policy of supporting repressive regimes in Central and South America hastened the death of the protect.

About the Author:

Gaddis Smith is Larned Professor of History at Yale University, where he has taught the history of American diplomacy and foreign policy since 1961.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0809064758
• ISBN 13: 9780809064755
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280