Roosevelt and the Caribbean

Professor Hill’s classic study, first published in 1927, is here reprinted from the original plates without any changes. Although Hill used no manuscript sources except the Theodore Roosevelt papers, his work holds up very well, perhaps because he kept his narrative close to the published sources and avoided “educated guessing.” Subsequent works such as Howard K. Beale, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power (for the Venezuelan crisis of 1902) and Dana G. Munro, Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean, 1900-1921, to say nothing of at least a half dozen articles, have added details and suggested varying interpretations of the events which Hill narrates, but he provides an excellent survey for collateral reading in advanced undergraduate courses. This book would make a good paperback. (Originally reviewed in February 1928)