Includes index. Includes maps of: Mexico and the Caribbean in the Banana War Era; Cuba and Hispaniola; Central America.

The Cuban Experience --Leonard Wood and the White Man's Burden -- TR and the Use of Force -- The Second Cuban Intervention, 1906 -- Cuba Occupied -- Teach Them to Elect Good Men -- The Nicaraguan Menace -- The Nicaraguan War, 1910-1912 -- The Mexican Crisis -- Veracruz -- The Rulers of Veracruz -- Civilizing the Tropics -- Turbulent Hispaniola -- The Pacification of Hispaniola: 1 -- The Pacification of Hispaniola: 2 -- The Last Banana War -- Interregnum, 1921-1925 -- The Second Nicaraguan Civil War, 1925-1927 -- The Sandino Chase -- The Last Banana War.