Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators The U.S. Foreign Service in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras /

Very few works of history, if any, delve into the daily interactions of U.S. Foreign Service members in Latin America during the era of Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy. But as Jorrit van den Berk argues, the encounters between these rank-and-file diplomats and local officials reveal the comple...

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Hlavní autor: van den Berk, Jorrit (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
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ISBN:9783319699868
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Obsah:
  • 1. Coping with the Caudillos
  • 2. The Envoys: The Foreign Service in Central America, 1930-1952
  • 3. Origins: The rise of the caudillos and the defeat of non-recognition, 1930-1934
  • 4. Continuismo: The Good Neighbor and non-interference, 1934-1936
  • 5. Becoming Benign Dictators: The Good Neighbor and fascism, 1936-39
  • 6. The Best of Neighbors: The alliance against fascism, 1939-1944
  • 7. The Casualties of War: The Central American upheavals of 1944
  • 8. The Post-War Moment: An opening for democracy, 1944-1947
  • 9. The Middle of the Road: The Cold War comes to Central America, 1947-1954
  • 10. Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators.