A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global Power

Cyrus Veeser

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August, 2002
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Introduction Economic Interests and U.S. Expansion, 1892--1907

Chapter One The Gilded Age Goes Abroad: The San Domingo Improvement Company and the Political Economy of the 1890s

Chapter Two Remapping the Caribbean: U.S. Caribbean Interests and the Mission of the SDIC

Chapter Three Peasants in the World Economy: The Dominican Republic in the late 1800s

Chapter Four Dictating Development: Ulises Heureaux and the SDIC Remake the Dominican Republic

Chapter Five The Cash Nexus: Economic Crisis and the Collapse

Chapter Six Old Wine in New Skins: The U.S. Government Champions the SDIC, 1899--1904

Chapter Seven A Reign of Law Among Nations: John Bassett Moore and the Vindication of the SDIC, 1904

Chapter Eight A World Safe for Capitalism: Stabilizing the Dominican Republic, 1901--1905

Chapter Nine From The Gilded Age to Dollar Diplomacy: The SDIC and the Roosevelt Corollary, 1904--1907

Conclusion

Related Subjects

• American History

Series

• Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History

About the Author

Cyrus Veeser is associate professor of history at Bentley College. He won the Bancroft Dissertation Prize for the work on which this volume is based.Cyrus Veeser, an assistant professor of history at Bentley College, won the Bancroft Dissertation Prize for the work on which this volume is based. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

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