Written in clear and comprehensible language, this book demonstrates that the perceived threat to U.S. interests in Latin America posed by the ambitions of the German Empire at the turn of the twentieth century did not correspond to reality. These threats included commercial tensions dating back to 1880, bankers’ and industrialists’ search for business opportunities, large-scale German immigration to certain regions of the New World and their mercantile bonds with the old country, the aggressive expansionistic rhetoric of Wilhelm II and the pangermanistas that included denunciations against the Monroe Doctrine, the expansion of the German navy, the discovery of Germany’s warlike plans against the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century, the German-American naval confrontation in the Bay of Manila in 1898, German aspirations for a naval base in the Caribbean, the Panther’s bombardment of the fort of San Carlos during the 1902–3 blockade of Venezuelan ports,...
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