Under the big stick
Subtitle: Nicaragua and the United States since 1848
By: by Karl Bermann.
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- Nicaragua; Nicaragua -- Foreign relations -- United States
Description: Few people in the US are aware that we have intervened more persistently in Nicaragua than in any other country in the hemisphere except Mexico and Cuba, whose geographic proximity to the United States has historically put them in a special category. Today's confrontation between the US and Nicaragua did not begin in 1979; it is but the latest chapter in a story that began more than 130 years ago. - p. [vii].
Notes: Bibliography: p. [303]-329.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Two Americas; title: The path of destiny; title: Adventures on the Miskito Coast; title: Slavery, war, and William Walker; title: Irrepressible conflict; title: The doctrine of the highwayman; title: From sea to shining sea; title: The rise and fall of José Santos Zelaya; title: The best laid plans; title: All but one; title: Good neighbors; title: The last marine; title: National interests