Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean, 1900-1921
Title | Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean, 1900-1921 PDF eBook |
Author | Dana Gardner Munro |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 566 |
Release | 2015-12-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1400877857 |
The commonly held view that the interests of American business dominated U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean during the early part of this century is challenged by Dana G. Munro, prominent scholar and former State Department official. He argues that the basic purpose of U.S. policy was to create in Latin America political and economic stability so that disorder and failure to meet foreign obligations there would not imperil the security of the United States. The U.S. government increasingly intervened in the internal affairs of the Central American and West Indian republics when it felt that their stability was threatened. This policy culminated in the military occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic and varying degrees of control in other countries. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean 1900-1921
Title | Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean 1900-1921 PDF eBook |
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Pages | 553 |
Release | 1968 |
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The Challenges of Power
Title | The Challenges of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel F. Wells |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780819176363 |
FROST (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library Collection.
INTERVENTION AND DOLLAR DIPLOMACY IN THE CARRIBEAN 1900-1921
Title | INTERVENTION AND DOLLAR DIPLOMACY IN THE CARRIBEAN 1900-1921 PDF eBook |
Author | DANA G. MUNRO |
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Pages | 553 |
Release | 1964 |
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Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribgean 1900-1921
Title | Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribgean 1900-1921 PDF eBook |
Author | Dana Gardner Munro |
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Release | 1964 |
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Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Carabbean, 1900-1921
Title | Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Carabbean, 1900-1921 PDF eBook |
Author | Dana Gardner Munro |
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Release | 1972 |
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A World Safe for Capitalism
Title | A World Safe for Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Cyrus Veeser |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2007-04-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231235879 |
"A rich and insightful analysis of the political economy of dollar diplomacy."-Emily S. Rosenberg, Macalester College A World Safe for Capitalism unravels a little-known incident a Wall Street corporation's takeover of the foreign debt, national railroad, and national bank of the Dominican Republic in the 1890's. Working with the republic's tyrannical president, the American firm tried to turn self-sufficient peasants into cash-crop farmers, with disastrous results. By 1904, the company's narrow pursuit of profit clashed with Theodore Roosevelt's goal of making the United States a great power, thus triggering a sweeping new policyùthe Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. Praised by Diplomatic History as "a model of globe-trotting multiarchival research," this exciting history covers events in New York, Washington, Santo Domingo, Brussels, and London. "A major contribution to the fields of U.S. economic and diplomatic history as well as Dominican history."-Journal of American History "Veeser joins an emergent historiography, which emphasizes the reception of US hegemony by local elites."-American Sudies International "Meticulously researched and carefully argued, Veeser's book challenges conventional wisdom and offers a persuasive interpretation of the origins of Dollar Diplomacy."-H.W. Brands, author of T.R.: The Last Romantic "A detailed and well-written account of the early growth of U.S. overseas interest"-Library Jouranl "Veeser disrupts the simplistic notion of foreign policy as window dressing for the...class interests of finance capitalists."-Business History Review "A significant chapter in the development of the practices of economic intervention that marked Washington's emergence as the dominant force in global capitalism in the twentieth century."-Hispanic American Historical Review