Acknowledgments
Introduction: Occupation: Why Fight It?
Part I: Intervention Resistance
1. Nicaragua, 1912
2. Haiti, 1915
3. The Dominican Republic, 1916
Part II: Occupation Resistance
4. Nicaragua, 1913-1925
5. Haiti, 1916-1920
6. The Dominican Republic, 1917-1921
7. Nicaragua, 1927-1929
8. Brambles and Thorns
Part III: The Stakes
9. Cultures of Resistance
10. Politics of Resistance
Part IV: Transnational Networks and U.S. Withdrawals
11. U.S. Responses, Haitian Setbacks, and Dominican Withdrawal,
1919-1924
12. The Americas against Occupation, 1927-1932
13. Nicaraguan Withdrawals, 1925-1934
14. Haitian Withdrawal, 1929-1934
Conclusion: Lessons of Occupation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Alan McPherson is Professor of International and Area Studies,
ConocoPhillips Petroleum Chair in Latin American Studies, and
Director of the Center for the Americas, University of Oklahoma. He
is the author of the prizewinning Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in
U.S.-Latin American Relations and of Intimate Ties, Bitter
Struggles: The United States and Latin America since 1945, and
editor of Anti-Americanism in Latin America and
the Caribbean, co-editor of The Anti-American Century, and editor
of The Encyclopedia of US Military Interventions in Latin America.
"The research for The Invaded is impressive in scope and
depth....[McPherson] mined [archives, oral history collections, and
various primary and seconday] sources for information, participant
anecdotes, and colorful perspectives....This book will enlighten
scholars and students looking to understand US involvement in the
Caribbean area."--T. Schoonover, Hispanic American Historical
Review
"Successive generations of scholars from different fields have
written on the U.S. interventions and occupation in the Caribbean
and Central America in the heyday of U.S. empire in the early
twentieth century. Alan McPherson's contribution to this genre
stands far above the rest. Using a broad array of sources,
McPherson has given us a model study of three occupations from the
era, in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua, and brings to
center stage the
story of the motives, makeup, and successes of who resisted these
occupations."--Lester D. Langley, author of The Banana Wars: United
States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934
"The Invaded offers a careful, sophisticated, and relevant analysis
of American occupation efforts in the Western Hemisphere during the
first half of the twentieth century. Alan McPherson shows that
native resistance aimed at preserving independence undermined
American ambitions, forcing the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers. This
is a book that everyone interested in modern warfare, diplomacy,
and counterinsurgency should read. Twenty-first century
American
experiences in the Middle East echo this compelling history of
Latin America a century earlier."--Jeremi Suri, author of 'Libertys
Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to
Obama
"Alan McPherson's outstanding new book does much more than chart
the sweeping impact of the major U.S. occupations in the Caribbean.
It also does more than remind us vividly and in greater detail of
some of what we already knew about the conduct of those
occupations....McPherson's book is not merely a breathtaking
compendium of evidence about the sordid nature of the occupations
drawn from sources from five countries in three languages. It also
benefits from
his rare ability to engage in historical comparison through
multinational research and deep knowledge of more than one
country."--Max Paul Friedman, ReVista
"For this reviewer, The Invaded was an eye opener, and forecasts
much of what has happened in the world since that time. The book is
highly recommended for people who are examining geopolitical events
now and in the twentieth century, and who hope that the past does
not predict the future. Latin Americanists, particularly those
hailing from the U.S., would do well to at least understand the
contours of the many political geographies seen through the
critical lens that McPherson casts. Readers will take away lessons
that can challenge any reincarnation of a newly spun Monroe
Doctrine in the new millennium."--Journal of Latin American
Geography
"[A]n important contribution to the limited historiography on U.S.
occupations."--The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
"Timely and indispensable....As most studies of occupations by
definition focus on the occupier, McPherson refreshingly tells much
of the story through the 'eyes of the invaded....The Invaded shows
the reader how new technologies and media allowed guerrilla foes to
fight back in the court of public opinion. McPherson believes these
American occupations and the propaganda campaigns of the invaded
sparked international solidarity movements that were as central
to
the struggle as the armed insurgents themselves."--The American
Interest
"Like the best international histories, McPherson mines an
impressive array of sources to chart endogenous and exogenous
factors that influenced the arc and scope of the occupations. He
convincingly proves that in each case the intervention proved
costly in human and fiscal terms, and that each failed in its
efforts to bring about what we today call 'regime change,' in part
because the Marines and diplomats were not infrequently at
cross
purposes."--American Historical Review
"Alan McPherson has produced a unique contribution to the
literature on U.S. Latin American relations. Viewing this work in
relationship to his previous scholarship, it is easy to conclude
that he has become the foremost young scholar in the field.This
book should be required reading for any policymaker, U.S. or other,
contemplating military intervention and occupation, and that is
high praise indeed."--H-Diplo Roundtable
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