What were US interests in Latin America before the 1890s, and how did it defend and promote them? Why did the US expand its influence into Central America and the Caribbean after the mid-1890s and why was it unopposed by other powers? Were the reasons primarily economic or political? Was the same reasoning and strategy applied to South America? What effect did the opening of the Panama Canal and World War I have on US influence in Latin America? Why was a policy which emphasised the use of force in the early twentieth century replaced by Good Neighbor in the 1930s? What were the limits to US hegemony? [There is a mass of literature: this is a small selection]
*G. Connell-Smith, The United States and Latin America
W. LaFeber, 'The Lion in the Path: the US emergence as a world power', Pol. Sci. Quart. 101 (1986), 705-718
*L.D. Langley, America and the Americas: the United States and the western hemisphere
L.D. Langley, The Banana Wars: an inner history of American empire, 1900-1934
L.D. Langley, The United States and the Caribbean in the Twentieth Century
J.S. Tulchin, The Aftermath of War: World War I and US policy toward Latin America
B. Wood, The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy
J.C. Brown, ‘Jersey Standard and the Politics of Latin American Oil Production, 1911-1930’, in J.D. Wirth (ed.), Latin American Oil Companies and the Politics of Energy, pp. 1-50
R. Downes, `Autos over Rails: how US business supplanted the British in Brazil', JLAS 24 (1992), 551-564
*J.A. Frieden, 'The Economics of Intervention: American overseas investments and relations with underdeveloped areas, 1890-1950', CSSH 31 (1989), 55-80 [also in SJSL offprint collection]
B.I. Kauffman, 'United States Trade and Latin America: the Wilson Years', Jnl. Amer. Hist. 58 (1978), 346-363
*T.F. O’Brien, The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945
E.S. Rosenberg, 'From Colonialism to Professionalism: the public-private dynamic in United States foreign financial advising, 1898-1929', Jnl. Amer. Hist. 74 (1987), 59-82
R.N. Seidel, 'American Reformers Abroad: the Kemmerer missions to South America', Jnl. Econ. Hist. 22 (1972), 520-545
L.A. Pérez, 'Dollar Diplomacy, Preventive Intervention, and the Rise of a Global Foreign Policy', Inter-Am. Econ. Affairs 38:2 (1984), 22-44
L.A. Pérez, Cuba under the Platt Amendment, 1902-1934
J.R. Benjamin, The United States and Cuba: hegemony and dependent development, 1880-1934
J.R. Benjamin, 'The New Deal, Cuba, and the Rise of a Global Foreign Policy', Business Hist. Rev. 51 (1977), 57-78
T.F. O'Brien, `The Revolutionary Mission: American enterprise in Cuba', AHR 98 (1993), 765-785
B.J. Calder, 'Caudillos and Gavilleros versus the US marines: guerrilla insurgency during the Dominican intervention, 1916-1924', HAHR 58 (1978), 649-675
T.M. Leonard, Central America and the United States: the search for stability
M.J. Gonzales, ‘US Copper Companies, the Mine Workers' Movement, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920. HAHR 76 (1996), 503-534.
L.B. Hall & D.M. Coerver, Revolution on the Border: the United States and Mexico, 1910-1920
W.K. Meyers, `Pancho Villa and the Multinationals: United States mining interests in villista Mexico, 1913-1915', JLAS 23 (1991), 339-364
L. Meyer, Mexico and the United States in the Oil Controversy, 1917-1942
J. Ewell, Venezuela and the United States: from Monroe’s hemisphere to petroleum’s empire
S.C. Topik, Trade and Gunboats: the United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire