The United States and Santo Domingo, 1798-1873
Author: Charles Callan Tansill
Publisher: Gloucester, Mass. : P. Smith, 1967 [c1938]
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Callan Tansill
Publisher: Gloucester, Mass. : P. Smith, 1967 [c1938]
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Callan Tansill
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 487
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Johns Hopkins University (BALTIMORE). Walter Hines Page School of International Relations
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 487
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: G. Pope Atkins
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780820319315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study of the political, economic, and sociocultural relationship between the Dominican Republic and the United States follows its evolution from the middle of the nineteenth century to the mid-1990s. It deals with the interplay of these dimensions from each country's perspective and in both private and public interactions. From the U.S. viewpoint, important issues include interpretation of the rise and fall of the Dominican Republic's strategic importance, the legacy of military intervention and occupation, the problem of Dominican dictatorship and instability, and vacillating U.S. efforts to "democratize" the country. From the Dominican perspective, the essential themes involve foreign policies adopted from a position of relative weakness, ambivalent love-hate views toward the United States, emphasis on economic interests and the movement of Dominicans between the two countries, international political isolation, the adversarial relationship with neighboring Haiti, and the legacy of dictatorship and the uneven evolution of a Dominican-style democratic system. The Dominican Republic and the United States is the eleventh book in The United States and the Americas series, volumes suitable for classroom use.
Author: Paul Finkelman
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 076564147X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The new edition of this classic work addresses how the first generation of leaders of the United States dealt with the profoundly important question of human bondage. This third edition incorporates a new chapter on the regulation of the African slave trade and the latest research on Thomas Jefferson.
Author: Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780809321971
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781422370049
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cyrus Veeser
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002-08-14
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0231500947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This award-winning book provides a unique window on how America began to intervene in world affairs. In exploring what might be called the prehistory of Dollar Diplomacy, Cyrus Veeser brings together developments in New York, Washington, Santo Domingo, Brussels, and London. Theodore Roosevelt plays a leading role in the story as do State Department officials, Caribbean rulers, Democratic party leaders, bankers, economists, international lawyers, sugar planters, and European bondholders, among others. The book recounts a little-known incident: the takeover by the Santo Domingo Improvement Company (SDIC) of the foreign debt, national railroad, and national bank of the Dominican Republic. The inevitable conflict between private interest and public policy led President Roosevelt to launch a sweeping new policy that became known as the Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. The corollary gave the U. S. the right to intervene anywhere in Latin American that "wrongdoing or impotence" (in T. R.'s words) threatened "civilized society." The "wrongdoer" in this case was the SDIC. Imposing government control over corporations was launched and became a hallmark of domestic policy. By proposing an economic remedy to a political problem, the book anticipates policies embodied in the Marshall Plan, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.
Author: Arthur Scherr
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2018-01-04
Total Pages: 319
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Providing the first full investigation of second U.S. president John Adams' attitudes toward slavery, blacks, and the Haitian Revolution, this iconoclastic study illuminates the inner and outer worlds of Adams for scholars and general readers. John Adams was a Founding Father of the United States who not only played a key role in laying the foundation of the nation but is also highly regarded as a great speaker, thinker, lawyer, revolutionary, diplomat, vice president, and president. But was Adams an opponent of slavery and a believer in racial equality? The historical evidence points to the contrary. This book is the first to discuss at any length John Adams's views on race, slavery, and slavery extension by examining his writings, politics, and diplomacy. Historian Arthur Scherr, an expert who is uniquely knowledgeable about Adams's views on slavery, race, and the Haitian Revolution, reveals Adams's attitudes toward slavery and race in and out of office, spotlighting his views on slavery during the American Revolution, his perspective regarding race as vice president and president of the United States, and his opinions in retirement. Readers will be able to form their opinions based on factual documentation of Adams's statements and actions regarding the key events involving slavery and race during this period: the gradual emancipation of slaves; U.S. aid to Haiti, the only black-governed nation in the world, and to its Governor-General Toussaint Louverture in gaining its independence; and the U.S. government's decision to permit slavery in new states and territories formed from public lands such as the Old Northwest and the Louisiana Purchase.