Amazon.com description: Product Description: This is the first book-length study of US-Argentine relations in the early Twentieth century based on extensive archival research. David Sheinin counters a longstanding belief that relations between the two countries were poor, punctuated by frequent conflict. There were tensions, to be sure. But Sheinin magnificently illustrates that as political and business elites in both countries sought international authority before 1930, United States-Argentine relations were generally strong, founded on shared commercial, political, and diplomatic objectives for the hemisphere.

Argentines looked to the American commercial advance in the Americas as a model; they sought equivalent business strength, and strategic influence in Central America and the Caribbean. While they hoped to compete with American businesses in Spanish-speaking countries, Argentines strongly supported the United States Pan American agenda for a breakdown in structures on trade and finance in the hemisphere. David Sheinin shows that the United States registered important diplomatic, political, and commercial triumphs in Argentina, and explains why Argentines were unable to translate their immense economic wealth into Pan American authority.