Confronting the American dream
Subtitle: Nicaragua under U.S. imperial rule
By: Michel Gobat.
Series: American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Intervention (International law); Nicaragua -- History -- 1909-1937; Nicaragua -- History -- 1838-1909; United States -- Relations -- Nicaragua; Nicaragua -- Relations -- United States
Description: "This series aims to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the history of the imposing global presence of the United States. Its primary concerns include the deployment and contestation of power, the construction and deconstruction of cultural and political borders, the fluid meanings of intercultural encounters, and the complex interplay between the global and the local. American Encounters seeks to strengthen dialogue and collaboration between historians of U.S. international relations and area studies specialists."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Manifest destinies, 1849/1910. Americanization through violence : Nicaragua under Walker; title: Americanization from within : forging a cosmopolitan nationality. pt. 2. Restoration, 1910/1912. Challenging imperial exclusions : Nicaragua under the Dawson Pact; title: 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"; title: Anxious landlords, resilient peasants : dollar diplomacy's socioeconomic impact; title: Cultural anti-Americanism : the Caballeros Católicos' crusade; title: 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; title: Revolutionary nationalism : elite conservatives, Sandino, and the struggle for a de-americanized Nicaragua. Epilogue: imperial legacies : dictatorship and revolution.