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North-South Visions of Central America

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THE UNITED STATES DISCOVERS PANAMA: THE WRITINGS OF SOLDIERS, SCHOLARS, SCIENTISTS, AND SCOUNDRELS, 1850–1905. Edited by LaRosaMichael and MejíaGermán R. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. Pp. 336. $65.00 cloth.)

HOW WALL STREET CREATED A NATION: J.P. MORGAN, TEDDY ROOSEVELT, AND THE PANAMA CANAL. By EspinoOvidio Diaz. (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001. Pp. 320. $16.00 cloth.)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

William M. LeoGrande*
Affiliation:
American University
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References

1. William M. LeoGrande, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998): 421.

2. Ibid., 447–448.

3. Piero Gleijeses, Shattered Hope: the Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944–1954 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991); Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1999); Richard H. Immerman, The CIA in Guatemala: the Foreign Policy of Intervention (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982).

4. David Stoll, Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).

5. For a portion of the debate, see Arturo Arias, ed., The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

6. LeoGrande, Our Own Backyard, 267.

7. United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2003–2004, LC/G.2255-P/I (Washington, DC: United Nations, 2004): Tables A-2, A-4, A-7.

8. United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Social Panorama of Latin America 2002–2003, LC/G.2209-P/I (Washington, DC: United Nations, 2004): 54.

9. Al Kamen, “Reagan-Era Zeal for Central America Fades,” Washington Post, October 16, 1990.