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A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global Power
Paper, 190 pages, 8 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-23587-7
$26.50
/ £18.50
August, 2002
Cloth, 190 pages, 8 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-12586-4
$77.50
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"A detailed and well-written account of the early growth of U.S. overseas influence. Highly recommended." — Library Journal
"A well-documented study. . . recommended." — Choice
"Veeser argues that the origins of Dollar Diplomacy can be found in the story of an American firm, the San Domingo Improvement Company (SDIC), and its efforts in the Dominican Republic in the 1890s." — Enterprise & Society
"This book is the first comprehensive study of the company and its role in the shaping of the Dominican economy and U.S. foreign policy . . . A major contribution to the fields of U.S. economic and diplomatic history as well as Dominican history." — Journal of American History
"[I]n his excellent new analysis . . . Veeser disrupts the simplistic notion of foreign policy as window dressing for the gradually accumulating class interests of finance capitalists. . . . [E]asy to recommend." — Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Business History Review
"This well-wrought book will stand as an authoritative monograph—useful to both scholars and teachers." — Seth Fein, Hispanic American Historical Review
"The book is an interesting and intricate account of how Dollar Diplomacy worked in practice and how, over time, it went terribly wrong." — Gregory Weeks, Latin Americanist
"By closely examining the dynamic interrelationships among government policymakers, private capitalists, and Dominican officials, this well-researched book offers a rich and insightful analysis of the political economy of dollar diplomacy." — Emily S. Rosenberg, Macalester College
"Meticulously researched and carefully argued, Veeser’s book challenges conventional wisdom and offers a persuasive interpretation of the origins of Dollar Diplomacy." — H. W. Brands, editor of The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt