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327 Bibliographical Essay With the completion of the “United States and the Americas” series, a detailed bibliographical essay identifying U.S. relations with individual countries or regions would be superfluous. With a few exceptions, this essay identifies general works related to broad themes in the U.S. experience in the Western Hemisphere from the American Revolution to the present. The most comprehensive bibliography of United States–Latin American relations is David Trask, Michael C. Meyer, and Roger Trask, A Bibliography of United States–Latin American Relations since 1810 (Lincoln, Neb., 1968), with a Supplement (Lincoln, Neb., 1979). For those interested in related items that may have been excluded from these volumes, the Handbook of Latin American Studies (Cambridge, Mass., Gainesville, Fla., and Austin, Tex., 1936–present, now available on a single compact disk) provides a virtually exhaustive bibliography in all fields of Latin American studies. The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) provides academics, scholars, teachers, and the general public access to information about Latin America today. The one-volume Guide to American Foreign Relations since 1700 (Santa Barbara, Calif., 1983) is now available in an expanded two-volume edition under the general editorship of Robert Beisner: American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature (Santa Barbara, Calif., 2003). Two works that fall under a broad definition of bibliographical guide and essay are Helen Delpar, Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850–1975 (Tuscaloosa, Ala., 2008), a balanced assessment; and Mark T. Berger, Under Northern Eyes: Latin American Studies and U.S. Hegemony in the Americas (Bloomington, Ind., 1995), which is more detailed but more critical of U.S. policy. For Canadian–United States relations see the superb bibliographical essay in John Herd Thompson and Stephen J. Randall, Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies, 4th ed. (Athens, Ga., 2008). General works on United States–Latin American relations, in English and Spanish, fall generally into three categories—those designed essentially as texts, lacking an overarching theme; those more attentive to the dynamics of the relationship in the twentieth century, particularly during the Cold War; and those offering either a defense or, more likely, critique of U.S. policy. Mark Gilderhus, 328 bibliographical essay The Second Century: U.S.–Latin American Relations since 1889 (Wilmington, Del., 1999), skillfully blends the insights of all three approaches. In the first category, texts, the most notable work is Graham Stuart and James L. Tigner, Latin America and the United States, 6th ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1975), which is immensely detailed but lacks thematic unity. For those looking for a more concise summary, J. Lloyd Mecham, A Survey of United States–Latin American Relations (Boston, 1965), focuses largely on U.S. strategic concerns; and Federico Gil, Latin American–United States Relations (New York, 1971), identifies the cycles of U.S. interest. Wilfrid Hardy Callcott, The Western Hemisphere: Its Influence on United States Policies to the End of World War II (Austin, Tex., 1968); and J. Lloyd Mecham, The United States and Inter-American Security, 1889–1960 (Austin, Tex., 1961), maintain that U.S. policy has been consistent. Excellent parallel texts from the Latin American view are G. Pope Atkins, Latin America in the International Political System (New York, 1977); Harold Davis et al., Latin American Diplomatic History: An Introduction (Baton Rouge, La., 1977); and Harold Davis and Larman Wilson, eds., Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis (Baltimore, 1975). Demetrio Boersner, Relaciones internacionales de América Latina (San José, C.R., 1986), is socialist in tone but often displays balance in its assessments. In the second category, those focusing on the Cold War era, some of the most useful works are by political scientists: Abraham Lowenthal, Partners in Conflict: The United States and Latin America (Baltimore, 1987), which makes the case for Latin America’s “transformation” since 1961; Harold Molineau, U.S. Policy toward Latin America: From Regionalism to Globalism (Boulder, Colo., 1986), which makes an eloquent argument for a policy of nonintervention; and Michael Kryzanek, U.S.–Latin American Relations (New York, 1985), which examines the internal forces, official and private, that act on hemispheric policy. Cole Blasier, The Hovering Giant: United States Responses to Revolutionary Change in Latin America (Pittsburgh, 1985), which focuses on Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba, Guatemala, Grenada, and Central America, is a model study. Richard Newfarmer, ed., From Gunboats to Diplomacy: New U.S. Policies for Latin America (Baltimore, 1984), is especially good on specific countries and alertly incorporates essays on current economic...

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