The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/01/2004
"Financial Missionaries to the World" establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy" - the use of international lending and advising - to early-twentieth-century US foreign policy. Combining diplomatic, economic, and cultural history, distinguished historian Emily S. Rosenberg shows how private bank loans were extended to leverage acceptance of American financial advisers by foreign governments. In an analysis striking in its relevance to contemporary debates over international loans, she reveals how a practice initially justified as a progressive means to extend "civilization" by promoting economic stability and progress became embroiled in controversy. Vocal critics at home and abroad charged that American loans and financial oversight constituted a new imperialism that fostered exploitation of less powerful nations. By the mid-1920s, she explains, even early supporters of dollar diplomacy worried that, by facilitating excessive borrowing, the practice might induce the very instability and default that it supposedly worked against.
- ISBN:
- 9780822332190
- 9780822332190
- Category:
- Economic history
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 02-01-2004
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Duke University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x19mm
- Weight:
- 0.71kg
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