The Second Century: US-Latin American Relations since 1889.(Review)

Mark T. Gilderhus, The Second Century: US-Latin American Relations since 1889 (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1999), pp. xvi+282, $55.00 $21.95 pb.

The Second Century, of course, refers to the second century of US foreign policy starting from the Washington Administration - the period from 1889 to 1989. As this suggests, the book is not so much a study of US-Latin American relations as a diplomatic history of US relations with Latin America. As with all other works of its kind it depends heavily on a literature dominated by the massive scholarship of the United States, hut its analysis of that literature, paradoxically, shows up how far that scholarship is also dominated …