From the author’s Preface:
…in this work, my intent is to tell the story of American involvement in the political, economic, and cultural lives of the Caribbean republics in the twentieth century. The perspective is the view from the United States, but I have incorporated enough of the internal histories of the republics to provide background and a more balanced perspective. My approach is chronological and episodic, for successive American leaders in the twentieth century have looked at the Caribbean differently from their predecessors, and each has encountered problems in some of the republics which, though exhibiting similarities to issues elsewhere, are nonetheless deserving of individual attention. Thus Woodrow Wilson’s perceptions of Caribbean politics differed from those of Theodore Roosevelt; and Roosevelt’s handling of Cuban and Panamanian affairs revealed still more distinctions and qualifications of policy toward separate portions of what contemporaries called the American empire.
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