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Using archival material from Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain and the United States, this book asserts that US meddling in the internal affairs of Central America stemmed from Washington's assumption that regional political turbulence threatened the operation of the Panama Canal.

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Salisbury (Western Kentucky University) argues that Central American anti-imperialism, strong at the beginning of the 1920s, had weakened by the end of the decade because each Central American nation tried unilaterally to safeguard its own interests. Spain and Mexico ceased to challenge the US in the area, and the US, more secure after having checked the threat of radicalism in Nicaragua and Mexico, initiated a new policy of nonintervention. Salisbury draws heavily from his previously published articles and his book, Costa Rica y el Istmo, 1900-1934 (San Jose, 1984) for this traditional diplomatic history. His extensive research in Costa Rican archives (and the relative richness of those archives) naturally gives Costa Rican figures prominent roles in his account. Although the endnotes provide abundant citation to archives (Spanish, Mexican, US) and to secondary works, the inclusion of a bibliography would have been welcome. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -J. Ewell, College of William and Mary