Description
Theodore Roosevelt's Caribbean, is a study of the first decade of the 20th Century with the United States' first involvement with a politically galvanized Central and South America, which was complicated by European intrusions and conflicting domestic interests starting with the 1902 blockade by the English and Germans of Venezuela. This blockade prompted Roosevelt to bring naval force and diplomacy to bear in his reassertion of the principles of the Monroe Doctrine, and while he was in Central America the U.S. began complex negotiations for the construction of the Panama Canal. This study not only examines the complex and, for the most part, misrepresented personality of Theodore Roosevelt but also discusses the political milieu that shaped America's policy-epitomized by the Roosevelt Corollary-in the Caribbean through the first half of the century and even today.
