Dollar diplomacy by force : nation-building and resistance in the Dominican Republic /

Dollar diplomacy by force : nation-building and resistance in the Dominican Republic /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Tillman, Ellen D., author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Description:	viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	American Occupation of Dominican Republic (1916-1924) Military occupation -- Social aspects -- Dominican Republic. Diplomatic relations. Military occupation -- Social aspects. Politics and government. Dominican Republic -- History -- American occupation, 1916-1924. Dominican Republic -- Politics and government -- 1844-1930. Dominican Republic -- Foreign relations -- United States. United States -- Foreign relations -- Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10559154

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ISBN:	9781469626956 1469626950 9781469626963
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.