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Interventions, Conventional and Unconventional: Current Scholarship on Inter-American Relations

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Thomas F. O'Brien*
Affiliation:
University of Houston
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References

1. Michael Hunt, “The Long Crisis in U.S. Diplomatic History: Coming to Closure,” Diplomatic History 16, no. 1 (Winter 1992): 115–116.

2. For examples of the new scholarship, see Emily S. Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982); Thomas F. O'Brien, The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900–1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996); Marcos Cueto, ed., Missionaries of Science: The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994); Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880–1917 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), chap. 5; Amy Kaplan, “Black and Blue on San Juan Hill,” in Cultures of United States Imperialism, ed. Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993), 219–236; Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001); and Luis A. Pérez Jr., On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture (New York: Harper Collins, 1999).

3. William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (New York: Delta, 1962), 148.

4. Piero Gleijeses, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991).