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THE UNITED STATES
AND
LATIN AMERICA

BY

JOHN HOLLADAY LATANÉ

PH. D., LL. D.

PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND DEAN OF THE
COLLEGE FACULTY IN THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Author of "From Isolation to Leadership,"
"America as a World Power," etc.

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

SOUTH AMERICA

TO THE MEMORY OF
MY FATHER

WHOSE DAILY COMMENTS ON PUBLIC QUESTIONS
WERE MY FIRST LESSONS IN THE STUDY
OF POLITICS

AND TO
MY MOTHER

WHO IMPARTED TO ME A LOVE OF HISTORY
AND WHOSE APPROVAL IS STILL THE RICHEST
REWARD OF MY EFFORTS

PREFACE

This book is based on a smaller volume issued by the Johns Hopkins Pressin 1900 under the title "The Diplomatic Relations of the United Statesand Spanish America," which contained the first series of Albert ShawLectures on Diplomatic History. That volume has been out of print forseveral years, but calls for it are still coming in, with increasingfrequency of late. In response to this demand and in view of thewidespread interest in our relations with our Southern neighbors I haverevised and enlarged the original volume, omitting much that was ofspecial interest at the time it was written, and adding a large amountof new matter relating to the events of the past twenty years.

Chapters I, II and V are reprinted with only minor changes; III, IV andVI have been rewritten and brought down to date; VII, VIII and IX arewholly new.

J. H. L.

Baltimore,
May 7, 1920.

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