Intervention in the Carribbean

by Bruce Palmer Jr.

Book Overview

The 1965 U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic remains a unique event: the only time the Organization of American States has intervened with force on a member state's territory. It is also a classic example of a U.S. military operation that drew in America's hemispheric allies. Finally, its outcome was that rare feat in the annals of diplomacy -- a peaceful political settlement of a civil war. Here for the first time is the full story of that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813116910
• ISBN13: 9780813116914
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher