Brother’s Keeper: The United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean, 1937-1962

U.S. concern for stability in the Caribbean during World War II led to the Havana Declaration and the Bases-forDestroyers Deal: the first gave the United States authority to intervene in foreign territory to defend against Axis encroachment and the second gave the United States military bases in the British Caribbean in exchange for American destroyers. [...] the specifics of the British Caribbean and decolonization during the Cold War would be enhanced by comparative study of U.S. relationships with independent Caribbean and Latin American nations.