TY - JOUR
AU - Gatell, Frank Otto
AB - Ammcas 5)63 ESTADOS UNIDOS Y AMERICA LATINA, SIGLO XIX. By Manuel Medina Castro. (Havana: Ediciones Casa de las Americas. 1968. Pp. 774.) THIS prize-winning study (Premio Ensayo 1968, Casa de las Americas) is the work of their man in Havana, Manuel Medina Castro, an Ecuadorian now living in exile in Cuba. Its thesis is straightforward and simple: United States-Latin Ameriean poliey during the nineteenth eentury was an unbroken chronicle of ehicanery, greed, hypoerisy, and aggression. The poliey deseribed went beyond the mere pursuit of national self-interest; in the end it beeame gratuitously offensive. Yanqui malevolenee, apparently, was and is a bottomless ehasm. Medina seems impressed by two things: the extent of his research and the need to reseue the his tory of US-Latin Ameriean relations from previous whitewash jobs. On the first point, doeumentation is sketehy, and the chief primary souree is the pub­ lished diplomatie correspondence. (The book is lamentably and unneeessarily long in relation to the data examined.) On the second point, Medina's knowledge and use of monographie material are almost nonexistent. The whole body of work by Ameri­ cans critical of US foreign poliey is ignored. Shortened and shorn of loaded modifiers, the book would fall 
TI - Estados Unidos y América Latina, Siglo XIX. By Manuel Medina Castro. (Havana: Edicioncs Casa de las Américas. 1968. Pp. 774.)
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/75.3.963
DA - 1970-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/estados-unidos-y-am-rica-latina-siglo-xix-by-manuel-medina-castro-G7p0b0LGFM
SP - 963
EP - 963
VL - 75
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -