Somoza and Roosevelt: Good Neighbour Diplomacy in Nicaragua, 1933-1945

[...]Crawley argues that, when all of this is taken into consideration, the theories that have abounded in the literature dealing with the United States and Somoza - which suggest that the dictator's rise to power was a carefully calculated effort to ensure stability in Nicaragua following the...

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Published inJournal of Latin American Studies Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 387 - 389
Main Author Krenn, Michael L.
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.05.2009
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Archives & records
Bibliographic literature
Diplomacy
Diplomatic & consular services
Hull, Cordell
Isolationism
Reviews
Guatemala
Nicaragua
El Salvador
United States > US
Latin America
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Summary:[...]Crawley argues that, when all of this is taken into consideration, the theories that have abounded in the literature dealing with the United States and Somoza - which suggest that the dictator's rise to power was a carefully calculated effort to ensure stability in Nicaragua following the departure of US Marines in 1933 - are simply mistaken. [...]the secondary sources are extraordinarily dated. For a book published in 2007, the latest work cited in the bibliography is from 1995, one of perhaps half a dozen sources from the 1990s. [...]fascinating studies such as Frederick Pike's 1995 work, FDR's Good Neighbor Policy: Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos are nowhere to be found.
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ISSN:0022-216X
1469-767X
DOI:10.1017/S0022216X09005690