| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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En el nombre del Destino Manifiesto. Guía de ministros y embajadores de Estados Unidos en México, 1825–1993 (In the name of Manifest Destiny. A guide to ministers and ambassadors of the United States in Mexico, 1825–1993). Coord. by Ana Rosa Suárez Argüello. (Mexico: Instituto Mora–Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 1998. 370 pp. Paper, isbn 968-6914-70-6.) In Spanish.

The role of the United States in Mexican history is quite large. From the meddlesome presence of the United States minister Joel Roberts Poinsett in the 1820s and the war of 1846–1848, which cost Mexico half of its national territory, to the border incidents and interventions in the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s, relations between the two countries revealed that the expansive neighbor to the north was an integral and sometimes decisive factor not only in the politics but, at times, in the survival of the nation. The controversial ambassadorship of John Gavin (1981–1986) underlined the continuing influence of the United States in Mexico. This volume consists of fifty-two biographical portraits of United States diplomatic representatives to Mexico that also provide trenchant commentary on the diplomatic, political, and economic circumstances of their tenures. . . .

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