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Confronting the American Dream : Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule /
Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid-nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912-33. Drawing on extensive research...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2005]
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| Colección: | American encounters/global interactions : 39
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I . Manifest Destinies, 1849-1910
- 1. Americanization through Violence: Nicaragua under Walker
- 2. Americanization from Within: Forging a Cosmopolitan Nationality
- Part II. Restoration, 1910-1912
- 3. Challenging Imperial Exclusions: Nicaragua under the Dawson Pact
- 4. Bourgeois Revolution Denied: U.S. Military Intervention in the Civil War of 1912
- Part III. Dollar Diplomacy, 1912-1927
- 5. Economic Nationalism: Resisting Wall Street's ''Feudal'' Regime
- 6. Anxious Landlords, Resilient Peasants: Dollar Diplomacy's Socioeconomic Impact
- 7. Cultural Anti-Americanism: The Caballeros Católicos' Crusade against U.S. Missionaries, the ''Modern Woman,'' and the ''Bourgeois Spirit''
- Part IV. Revolution, 1927-1933
- 8. Militarization via Democratization: The U.S. Attack on Caudillismo and the Rise of Authoritarian Corporatism
- 9. Revolutionary Nationalism: Elite Conservatives, Sandino, and the Struggle for a De-Americanized Nicaragua
- Epilogue. Imperial Legacies: Dictatorship and Revolution
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index