Chapter I: Preface

This book is based on a smaller volume issued by the Johns Hopkins Press in 1900 under the title "The Diplomatic Relations of the United States and Spanish America," which contained the first series of Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History. That volume has been out of print for several years, but calls for it are still coming in, with increasing frequency of late. In response to this demand and in view of the widespread interest in our relations with our Southern neighbors I have revised and enlarged the original volume, omitting much that was of special interest at the time it was written, and adding a large amount of new matter relating to the events of the past twenty years.

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

J. H. L.

BALTIMORE,
May 7, 1920.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I THE REVOLT OF THE SPANISH COLONIES 3

II THE RECOGNITION OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN
REPUBLICS 48

III THE DIPLOMACY OF THE UNITED STATES IN
REGARD TO CUBA 83

IV THE DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF THE PANAMA
CANAL 144

V FRENCH INTERVENTION IN MEXICO 193

VI THE TWO VENEZUELAN EPISODES 238

VII THE ADVANCE OF THE UNITED STATES IN
THE CARIBBEAN 261

VIII PAN AMERICANISM 292

IX THE MONROE DOCTRINE 320

INDEX 335

MAPS

SOUTH AMERICA _Frontispiece_

THE CARIBBEAN _Facing page 262_

THE UNITED STATES

AND

LATIN AMERICA

THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA