Research Catalog

Title

Inevitable revolutions : the United States in Central America / Walter LaFeber.

Author

LaFeber, Walter.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, 1984.

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Details

Description

viii, 378 p. : maps; 20 cm.

Summary

"Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica: five small countries. From Thomas Jefferson to Ronald Reagan, no part of the world has been more vital to the United States, or less understood by most Americans. How and why these countries have been unable to seize their own destinies, why they have remained so hungry, overpopulated, illiterate, and violent, is a great story of North America as well as Central American history. For in no other area of the world have United States security and commercial interests combined more fully to create a system of dependency. It is a system that is driven by a fear of Communism and the quest for stability at any price. This brilliant history proves clearly why, finally, the dependency system has turned back upon itself, destroying the stability it sought to preserve" -- Page 4 of cover.

Alternative Title

United States in Central America

Subject

• Compagnie Rêvolution
• Revolutions > Central America
• United States > Foreign relations > Central America
• Central America > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > Central America
• United States Foreign relations with Central America, to 1983
• Central America Foreign relations with United States, to 1983

Note

• "Updated to analyze the El Salvador elections of 1984."
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 353-359

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

An overview of the system -- Setting up the system -- Maintaining the system -- Updating the system -- The collapse of the system.

ISBN

0393302121 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^84025358^

OCLC

• 11371919
• SCSB-11910959

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library