A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global PowerThis 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. |
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US Caribbean Interests and the Mission of the SDIC | 30 |
The Dominican Republic in the Late 1800s | 43 |
Ulises Heureaux and the SDIC Remake the Dominican Republic | 58 |
Economic Crisis and the Collapse of the HeureauxSDIC Regime | 76 |
The US Government Champions the SDIC18991904 | 98 |
John Bassett Moore and the Vindication of the SDIC 1904 | 110 |