Preface
Abbreviations
Part One: INTRODUCTION
I. Two American Peoples in 1810: Similarities
Part Two: THE FOUNDATIONS OF A NATION
II. Revolution in Buenos Aires: Roots of American Interest, 1810-1816
Revolution in Buenos Aires - Dispatch of the First American Agents - The Policy of the United Provinces - American Offspring Resist Mother Europe - Independence of the United Provinces
III. Growing Pains of a Young Nation: Challenges to American Neutrality, 1815-1817
Professed Neutrality - An Unauthorized Loan - An Unauthorized Treaty - A Discredited Consul
IV. The South American Mission: Investigation and Nonrecognition, 1817-1818
The South American Mission - Commissioners and Their Instructions - Inspection of the United Provinces - Reports and Disagreement - Effects upon Recognition - International Reactions
V. Quest of Diplomatic Recognition: Perpetuation of American Neutrality, 1817-1819
Pueyrredon Sends An Agent - Clay Crusades for Recognition - The Agent Crusades for Recognition - The United Provinces Send a Consul General - Proposals of Bilateral Recognition
VI. Anarchy and Order in Argentina: Recognition at Last, 1819-1824
Further Postponement of Recognition - A Season of Anarchy in Argentina - Clay Renews His Crusade - The United States Renews Investigation - John M. Forbes Undertakes a Mission - Clay's Final Crusade - Forbes's Defense of American Rights - Recognition a Legal Reality - A Minister Is Sent to Buenos Aires - A Minister Is Sent to Washington
VII. Protection of American Interests: Vexations of a Diplomat, 1823-1831
The Monroe Doctrine and the United Provinces - Anglo-American Commercial Rivalry - The Flour Tariff Controversy - The Argentine-Brazilian War - The Question of Claims - Forbes and Internal Politics
Part Three: ARGENTINA, PAWN OF POWER POLITICS
VIII. The Falkland Islands: A Diplomatic Incident and the Aftermath, 1831-1960
Argentina Inherits the Falklands - Seizure of American Ships - The Lexington Retaliates - Reaction in Buenos Aires and in Washington - Jacksonian Diplomacy on Paper - Jacksonian Diplomacy in Action - Great Britain Fills a Vacuum - The Sequel: A Decade Later - The Sequel: A Half-Century Later - The Sequel: A Century Later
IX. Vortex of International Politics: Foreign Intervention, 1838-1850
Geography and Politics in the Plata Valley - Interference of the French, 1838-1840 - Beginnings of Anglo-French Interposition - Renewal of Diplomatic Relations - The Voorhees Affair - American Agents Protest the Blockades - Abortive Attempts to Mediate - Reactions in the United States - Reactions in Argentina - Last Phases of the Intervention
X. The Beginnings of Commerce: Trade and Navigation under Handicaps, 1824-1870
Fluctuations in Trade - A New Government and New Treaties - Dual Governments in Argentina - The Yancey Mediation - The Growth of Trade and Related Interests
Part Four: PARAGUAY FOCUS OF ARGENTINE-AMERICAN DIPLOMACY
XI. Imbroglio in Paraguay: Imprudence of American Agents, 1853-1860
An Unratified Treaty - The Imprudence of a Consul - The Affair of the Water Witch - Pierce Conciliates; Buchanan Threatens - Urquiza and the Settlement - Satisfaction with the Settlement
XII. The Paraguayan War: Defense of Diplomatic Rights, 1865-1870
Origins of the Paraguayan War - Minister vs. Admiral - Combatants, Neutrals, and Internatinal Law - Stiffening Policy of the United States - The Minister Reaches His Post - Resignation and Exit - A New Minister and His Recall - A Propaganda Battle
XIII. The Paraguayan War: Mediation and Arbitration, 1864-1878
The First Proposals of Mediation - Procrastination and Refusal - American Insistence and Latin Resentment - Final Failure - The Question of Boundaries - Argentine-Paraguayan Differences, 1872-1876 - The Arbitration of President Hayes
Part Five: THE EXPANSION OF NATIONAL INTERESTS
XIV. Nations in Midstream: Ferment and Unity in Two Republics, 1860-1880
Influences on Policy Trends: The Past - Ferment and National Unity - Sarmiento, Link Between Republics - Argentine Consolidation and Expansion - Influences on Policy Trends: The Future
XV. The Expansion of Commerce: New Direction and Old Barriers, 1871-1914
Sluggish Growth to the Mid-Nineties - Real Barriers and Ineffective Countermeasures: Tariffs - Other Barriers and Countermeasures - Rocketing Growth to World War I - New Direction and Old Barriers
XVI. Partnership in Peaceful Settlement: Argentine Boundaries, 1878-1899
The Record of Peaceful Collaboration - The Ministers Osborn and the Chilean Boundary - President Cleveland and the Brazilian Boundary - Minister Buchanan and the Puna de Atacama
XVII. Partnership in Peaceful Settlement: Conflicting Doctrines and Cooperative Actions, 1900-1914
Peace Doctrine and Peace Machinery - The United States Assists Argentina - The United States and Argentina Assist Others - Argentina Assists the United States
XVIII. Rivalry in Inter-American Affairs: Pan Americanism in Peacetime, 1889-1910
Argentine-American Roots of Pan-Americanism - The Washington Conference and Its Sequel - The Mexico City Conference - and After - The Rio de Janerio Conference - "Battleship Diplomacy" - The Buenos Aires Conference
Part Six: WORLD AND INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS
XIX. World War I: Neutrality and Belligerency, 1914-1918
Legations Become Embassies: Naon and Stimson - The United States and Argentina Test Neutrality - American Belligerency and Argentine Neutrality - Neutral Argentine Salutes the American Fleet - German Submarines, Argentine Ships, and Luxburg - Argentine Economic Aid to the Allies - Complications of Economic Warfare - Benevolent Neutrality Pays
XX. Rivalry in Inter-American Affairs: Pan Americanism in Wartime, 1910-1918
Pan Americanism vs. Latin Americanism - Argentina and Wilson's Pan American Pact - Argentine and the International High Commission - The United States and Irigoyen's Latin American Conference - Ambassador Naon: The End of a Mission
XXI. The Rise and Fall of Commerce: Business During War, Boom, and Depression, 1914-1939
Expansion of Argentine Prosperity - Growth of Two-Way Trade - Causes of Growth: Sequel to War - Improved Intelligence - Reduction of Barriers - Americans Invest in Argentina - Argentina Borrows in the United States - Obstacles to Growth: Tariff Walls and Sanitary Embargoes - Anglo-American Rivalry - Depression and the Fall of Trade - Radicals and Republicans in Conflict - Conservatives and Democrats in Conflict
XXII. Rivalry in Inter-American Affairs: Reluctant Partners in Pan Americanism, 1919-1939
Argentina, the League, and the Monroe Doctrine - The Santiago Conference - Boundaries and Other Hemisphere Problems - Havana: Pueyrredon vs. Hughes - Shifts in Three Governments - Montevideo: Hull and Saavedra Lamas - War and Peace in the Gran Chaco - Buenos Aires: Roosevelt, Hull, and Saavedra Lamas - Lima: Cantila and Hull
XXIII. World War II: Neutrality and Belligerency, 1939-1943
Argentine and American Commitments to Their Neighbors - Inter-American Neutrality and Security - Hemisphere Security and Argentine Indecision - A Trade Agreement at Last - American Belligerency and Argentine Nonbelligerency - The Beginnings of Coercion
XXIV. World War II and After: Coercion of a Reluctant Ally, 1943-1947
The Army Revolt of June 4, 1943 - Argentina Breaks Relations - Secretary Hull and the GOU - British Foils Hull's Hopes - Chapultepec and San Francisco - Braden vs. Peron - "Peron o Braden!" - Messersmith and Truman Make Peace with Peron
XXV. Cold War in the Americas: Rivalry for Hemisphere Leadership, 1947-1955
Peron's Program at Home - Truman's Program in the Hemisphere - Peron's Program in the Hemisphere - Truman's Policy Toward Argentina - Peron Blows Hot and Cold - The Eisenhower-Dulles Policy
XXVI. A Proud Nation in Distress: The End of Peron and the Beginning of Reconstruction, 1955-1960
Accumulating Discontent - The Fall of the Despot - Military Guardians of the State - The Return of Civilian Government - The Road to Economic Recovery
XXVII. Two American Nations in 1960: Contrasts
APPENDICES
Appendix A. Argentine Ministers of Foreign Relations
Appendix B. Argentine Representatives at Washington
Appendix C. United States Representatives at Buenos Aires
Bibliography
Index