This is history as it should be written: massive research and thorough documentation producing a story that tells itself. Recommended for academic history, labor, and Latin American studies collections.Choice
Foner's book is primarily valuable as a documentary record. It pays meticulous attention to the labour and socialist press of the time. . . . [A] worthy source of information.Latin America Connexions
This noted historian writes in his fluid style about the sometimes contradictory positions taken by the labor unions and socialists in response to American intervention in Central America (long before today's Contras), from the Mexican War of 1846 to the founding of the Pan-American Federation of Labor in 1918.
Preface
The War with Mexico, 1846-1848
Cuba Libre and the War with Spain
The New American Empire
The U.S. Occupation of Cuba
U.S Rule in Puerto Rico
U.S. Intervention in Central America: Colombia, Panama, and Nicaragua
The D?az Dictatorship: The Mexican Revolution 1
Overthrow of D?az and the Baja California Episode: The Mexican Revolution 2
U.S. Intervention, 1911-1914: The Mexican Revolution 3
Carranza, Gompers, and the Mexican Labor Movement: The Mexican Revolution 4
The Punitive Expedition of 1916: The Mexican Revolution 5
Founding of the Pan-American Federation of Labor
Index