| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Comparative/World

Russell Crandall.Gunboat Democracy: U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2006. Pp. x, 255. Cloth $75.00, paper $26.95.

Nationalistic scholars, such as Samuel Flagg Bemis, traditionally dominated interpretations of inter-American relations. In The Latin American Policy of the United States (1943), Bemis famously called the repeated U.S. military interventions in the Caribbean between 1903 and 1933 "short-lived benevolent imperialism" or "imperialism against imperialism" that "was not really bad." In the recent past, scholars of inter-American relations have dismissed such interpretations, judging them arrogant, chauvinistic, and wrong. Historians have analyzed the motives and impact of both the pre–World War II military interventions in the Caribbean and the Cold War covert and overt interventions in Guatemala (1954), Cuba (1959–1965), Brazil (1962–1964), British Guiana (1961–1968), Chile (1970–1973), and Central America (1980s). They have concluded that the U.S. interventions degraded the political, military, and socioeconomic structures of these Western Hemisphere societies and that, especially in the Cold War period, the interventions undermined constitutional procedures and democratic processes.

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