Confronting the American dream : Nicaragua under U.S. imperial rule / Michel Gobat
- Author
- Gobat, Michel
- Published
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- pt. 1. Manifest destinies, 1849/1910. Americanization through violence : Nicaragua under Walker -- Americanization from within : forging a cosmopolitan nationality. pt. 2. Restoration, 1910/1912. Challenging imperial exclusions : Nicaragua under the Dawson Pact -- Bourgeois revolution denied : U.S. military intervention in the civil war of 1912. pt. 3. 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 Católicos' crusade -- Against U.S. missionaries, the "modern woman," and the "bourgeois spirit". pt. 4. 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0822336340 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822336472 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-350) and index.
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