Historical Dictionary of U.s.latin American Relations

David W. Dent is Professor emeritus of political science at Towsen University. He the author ofEncyclopedia of Modern Mexico (2002), The Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine: A Reference Guide to U.S. Involvement in Latin America and the Caribbean (Greenwood, 1999), the co-author ofHistorical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations (1998), and the editor ofU.S.-Latin American Policymaking: A Reference Handbook (1995) and Handbook of Political Science Research on Latin America: Trends from the 1960s to the 1990s (1990). Dent is the author of over 100 articles, essays, and chapters on Latin American and U.S.-Latin American relations. For the past 30 years he has been a contributing editor for theHandbook of Latin American Studies, a biannual reference book published by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.