Dollar Diplomacy by Force : Nation-Building and Resistance in the Dominican Republic /
In the early 20th century, the US set out to guarantee economic and political stability in the Caribbean without intrusive military interventions - and ended up achieving the opposite. Using military and government records from the US and the Dominican Republic, this work investigates the extent to...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Markets, militaries, and modernization: U.S.-Dominican relations to 1899
- Military diplomats and dollar diplomacy: from customs receivership to civil war
- Involvement to invasion: military control and the defense of local sovereignty
- A promiscuous heaping of adventurers: the constabulary experiment of 1916-1918
- Regional negotiation and resistance: the "moralizing" versus the expedient
- Opposing networks for change: consolidating reform and resistance after 1920
- Products of compromise: legitimating state and military
- Conclusion.