Dollar Diplomacy by Force : Nation-Building and Resistance in the Dominican Republic /

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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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Main Author: Tillman, Ellen D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politics and government.
Military occupation > Social aspects.
Diplomatic relations.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Occupation militaire > Aspect social > Republique dominicaine.
Military occupation > Social aspects > Dominican Republic.
United States.
Dominican Republic.
États-Unis > Relations exterieures > Republique dominicaine.
Republique dominicaine > Politique et gouvernement > 1844-1930.
Republique dominicaine > Histoire > 1916-1924 (Occupation americaine)
United States > Foreign relations > Dominican Republic.
Dominican Republic > Foreign relations > United States.
Dominican Republic > Politics and government > 1844-1930.
Dominican Republic > History > American occupation, 1916-1924.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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