A world safe for capitalism: dollar diplomacy and America's rise to global power
(2005)
By:
Veeser, Cyrus
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Columbia University Press : Made available through hoopla, 2005
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780231500944 (electronic bk.) MWT11860212, 0231500947 (electronic bk.) 11860212
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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 policy-the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
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