The Invaded explores the United States' military occupations of Nicaragua (1912-33), Haiti (1915-34), and the Dominican Republic (1916-24), proposing not only that opposition to U.S. intervention was more widespread than commonly acknowledged but that anti-imperial movements in the Caribbean basin were primarily responsible for bringing about the end of U.S. occupation.
The Invaded explores the United States' military occupations of Nicaragua (1912-33), Haiti (1915-34), and the Dominican Republic (1916-24), proposing not only that opposition to U.S. intervention was more widespread than commonly acknowledged but that anti-imperial movements in the Caribbean basin were primarily responsible for bringing about the end of U.S. occupation.
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.
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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
