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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tillman, Ellen D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
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.