Beyond the ideal : Pan Americanism in Inter-American affairs / ed. by David Sheinin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Rethinking Pan Americanism: An Introduction / David Sheinin -- 2. Pan Americanism and Slavery in the Era of Latin American Independence / Peter Blanchard -- 3. The First Conference of American States (1889-1890) and the Early Pan American Policy of the United States / Joseph Smith -- 4. Leo Stanton Rowe and the Meaning of Pan Americanism / David Barton Castle -- 5. A Greater America? Pan Americanism and the Professional Study of Latin America, 1890-1990 / Mark T. Berger -- 6. Ruben Dario and Literary Anti-Americanism/Anti-Imperialism / Alberto Prieto-Calixto -- 7. Hispanismo versus Pan Americanism: Spanish Efforts to Counter U.S. Influence in Latin America before 1930 / Richard V. Salisbury -- 8. In Four Languages But with One Voice: Division and Solidarity within Pan American Feminism, 1923-1933 / K. Lynn Stoner -- 9. The New Pan Americanism in U.S.-Central American Relations, 1933-1954 / Thomas M. Leonard --

10. "Its Most Destructive Agents": Pan American Environmentalism in the Early Twentieth Century / David Sheinin -- 11. Pan American Shift: Oswaldo Aranha and the Demise of the Brazilian-American Alliance / W. Michael Weis -- 12. The Theory and Practice of Inter-American Literature: An Historical Overview / Earl E. Fitz -- 13. The Myth of Pan Americanism: U.S. Policy toward Latin America during the Cold War, 1954-1963 / Stephen M. Streeter -- 14. Ecuador and the Organization of American States : A Less Than Perfect Union / Jeanne A. K. Hey -- 15. The Inter-American Human Rights System: A Force for Positive Change in the Americas / Jo M. Pasqualucci -- 16. Eclectic Ideal: Bringing a Positivist Order to the Literature of Pan Americanism / David Sheinin.