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Dollar Diplomacy by Force

By Tillman, Ellen D.

Dollar Diplomacy by Force Politics & History

Dollar Diplomacy by Force

By Tillman, Ellen D.

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In the early twentieth century, the United States set out to guarantee economic and political stability in the Caribbean without intrusive and controversial military interventions—and ended up achieving exactly the opposite. Using military and government records from the United States and the Dominican Republic, this work investigates the extent to which early twentieth-century U.S. involvement in the Dominican Republic fundamentally changed both Dominican history and the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. Successive U.S. interventions based on a policy of “dollar diplomacy” led to military occupation and contributed to a drastic shifting of the Dominican social order, as well as centralized state military power, which Rafael Trujillo leveraged in his 1920s rise to dictatorship. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the overthrow of the social order resulted not from military planning but from the interplay between uncoordinated interventions in Dominican society and Dominican responses.
Telling a neglected story of occupation and resistance, Ellen D. Tillman documents the troubled efforts of the U.S. government to break down the Dominican Republic and remake it from the ground up, providing fresh insight into the motivations and limitations of occupation.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2016-03-28
Publication Date:
2016-03-28
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1469626950
ISBN13:
9781469626956
Weight:
494 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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