Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule

Michel Gobat

Published by Duke University Press 2005

Confronting the American Dream

Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule

Michel Gobat
Edited by: Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg

In the series American encounters/global interactions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387183

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About this book

Asks how a virulent anti-Americanism developed in a Nicaraguan society that also seemed to embrace Americanization fervently and explores the historical roots of this paradox.

Author / Editor information

Michel Gobat is Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa.

Reviews

“Extraordinarily engaging, Confronting the American Dream is far and away the best work ever written on the convoluted path of elite/Conservative disenchantment with the U. S. imperial project in Nicaragua. Its relevance to broader historical and contemporary phenomena throughout Latin America and well beyond is really quite remarkable.”— Lowell Gudmundson, coauthor of Central America, 1821–1871: Liberalism before Liberal Reform

“This is a beautifully argued and researched book—one of the most important and revealing case studies we have in U.S.–Latin American relations. But it goes far beyond that. Without ever significantly moving past the 1930s, Michel Gobat has provided an indictment of the early-twenty-first-century embrace of ‘American empire’ and, in a model of scholarship, provided stunning insights into the ironies—and tragedies—of the misuse of U.S. power.”—Walter LaFeber, author of America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–2002

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I . Manifest Destinies, 1849–1910
1. Americanization through Violence: Nicaragua under Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Americanization from Within: Forging a Cosmopolitan Nationality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Part II. Restoration, 1910–1912
3. Challenging Imperial Exclusions: Nicaragua under the Dawson Pact Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
4. Bourgeois Revolution Denied: U.S. Military Intervention in the Civil War of 1912 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Part III. Dollar Diplomacy, 1912–1927
5. Economic Nationalism: Resisting Wall Street’s ‘‘Feudal’’ Regime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
6. Anxious Landlords, Resilient Peasants: Dollar Diplomacy’s Socioeconomic Impact Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
7. Cultural Anti-Americanism: The Caballeros Católicos’ Crusade against U.S. Missionaries, the ‘‘Modern Woman,’’ and the ‘‘Bourgeois Spirit’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Part IV. Revolution, 1927–1933
8. Militarization via Democratization: The U.S. Attack on Caudillismo and the Rise of Authoritarian Corporatism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
9. Revolutionary Nationalism: Elite Conservatives, Sandino, and the Struggle for a De-Americanized Nicaragua Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Epilogue. Imperial Legacies: Dictatorship and Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 390
Illustrations
- Other: 26 illus., 3 tables, 5 maps

eBook

Published: December 27, 2005
ISBN: 9780822387183