Gobat / Joseph / Rosenberg Confronting the American Dream

Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8718-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 390 Seiten

Reihe: American encounters/global interactions

Asks how a virulent anti-Americanism developed in a Nicaraguan society that also seemed to embrace Americanization fervently and explores the historical roots of this paradox.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gobat, Michel

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Tables x

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part I: Manifest Destinies, 1849–1910 19

1. Americanization through Violence: Nicaragua under Walker 21

2. Americanization from Within: Forging a Cosmopolitan Nationality 42

Part II: Restoration, 1910–1912 73

3. Challenging Imperial Exclusions: Nicaragua under the Dawson Pact 75

4. Bourgeois Revolution Denied: U.S. Military Intervention in the Civil War of 1912 100

Part III: Dollar Diplomacy, 1912–1927 123

5. Economic Nationalism: Resisting Wall Street’s “Feudal” Regime 125

6. Anxious Landlords, Resilient Peasants: Dollar Diplomacy’s Socioeconomic Impact 150

7. Cultural Anit-Americanism: The Caballeros Catolicos’ Crusade against U.S. Missionaries, the “Modern Woman,” and the “Bourgeois Spirit” 175

Part IV: Revolution, 1927–1933 203

8. Militarization via Democratization: The U.S. Attack on Caudillismo and the Rise of Authoritarian Corporatism 205

9. Revolutionary Nationalism: Elite Conservatives, Sandino, and the Struggle for a De-Americanized Nicaragua 232

Epilogue: Imperial Legacies: Dictatorship and Revolution 267

Notes 281

Selected Bibliography 325

Index 351

Über Autor(innen)

Michel Gobat is Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa.