The British Bondholders and the Roosevelt Corollary of the Monroe Doctrine
Author: James Fred Rippy
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Published: 1934
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Author: James Fred Rippy
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Published: 1934
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cyrus Veeser
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007-04-22
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0231235879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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 policyĆ¹the 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
Author: Gretchen Meier
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Published: 1930
Total Pages: 116
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 112
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 276
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Publisher: Beard Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 1587980460
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Heathcote Heindel
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 1512816795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author: John Holland Rose
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1929
Total Pages: 974
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780231125864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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 1890s. 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 policy-the 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.