Confronting the American Dream Nicaragua under U. S. Imperial Rule

Name: Confronting the American Dream Nicaragua under U. S. Imperial Rule
Price: 8.75 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780822336471

ISBN-10: 0822336472

ISBN-13: 9780822336471

Edition: 2005

Authors: Michel Gobat, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg

List price: $30.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $32.46

Marketplace

5 new & used from $8.75

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid-nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912-33. Drawing on extensive research in Nicaraguan and U.S. archives, Gobat accounts for two seeming paradoxes that have long eluded historians of Latin America: that Nicaraguans so strongly embraced U.S. political, economic, and cultural forms to defend their own nationality against U.S. imposition and that the country's wealthiest and most Americanized elites were transformed from leading supporters of U.S. imperial rule into some…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/27/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.21" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Illustrations


Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Manifest Destinies, 1849-1910



Americanization through Violence: Nicaragua under Walker



Americanization from Within: Forging a Cosmopolitan Nationality



Restoration, 1910-1912



Challenging Imperial Exclusions: Nicaragua under the Dawson Pact



Bourgeois Revolution Denied: U.S. Military Intervention in the Civil War of 1912



Dollar Diplomacy, 1912-1927



Economic Nationalism: Resisting Wall Street's "Feudal" Regime



Anxious Landlords, Resilient Peasants: Dollar Diplomacy's Socioeconomic Impact



Cultural Anti-Americanism: The Caballeros Catolicos' Crusade against U.S. Missionaries, the "Modern Woman," and the "Bourgeois Spirit"



Revolution, 1927-1933



Militarization via Democratization: The U.S. Attack on Caudillismo and the Rise of Authoritarian Corporatism



Revolutionary Nationalism: Elite Conservatives, Sandino, and the Struggle for a De-Americanized Nicaragua


Epilogue: Imperial Legacies: Dictatorship and Revolution


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index