What is a good book on the history of American intervention in South and Central America?

by Jdog005
c0rnhuli0

Browse some Chomsky

gplnd

For Central America specifically, check out a new edition of Walter LaFeber's Inevitable Revolutions.

Legendarytubahero

I don’t know if U.S.-Latin American relations would be useful to you, but here are some introductory texts that overview the challenging relationship. These works include a lot of information about various interventions set in a larger historical context:

  • Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America by Lars Schoultz
  • Talons of the Eagle: Latin America, the United States, and the World by Peter H. Smith
  • America and the Americas: the United States in the Western Hemisphere by Lester Langley
  • Neighborly Adversaries: Readings in U.S.-Latin American Relations edited by Michael J. LaRosa and Frank O. Mora
  • Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History edited by Robert Holden and Eric Zolov

This book also might be useful to you, although I have not read it:

  • U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War by Michael Grow