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Financial missionaries to the world : the politics and culture of dollar diplomacy, 1900-1930 /

Winner of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations' Robert H. Ferrell Book PrizeFinancial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy," the use of international lending and advising, to early-twentieth-century U.S. foreig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenberg, Emily S., 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:American encounters/global interactions.
Subjects:
United States > Foreign economic relations.
United States > Economic policy > To 1933.
International finance > History > 20th century.
Economic policy.
International economic relations.
International finance.
United States.
Buitenlandse economische politiek.
Economische betrekkingen.
Financiële politiek.
To 1999
History.
Online Access:ebrary
Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Gold-Standard Visions: International Currency Reformers, 1898-1905
  • The Meanings of Money and Markets
  • Turning Silver Standards into Gold
  • The Commission on International Exchange
  • The New Specialists in International Financial Advising
  • 2. The Roosevelt Corollary and the Dominican Model of 1905
  • Gender, Race, National Interest, and Civilization
  • The Dominican Model
  • Development of Investment Banking
  • International Precedents for Fiscal Control
  • Fiscal Control through Public-Private Partnership
  • 3. The Changing Forms of Controlled Loans under Taft and Wilson
  • Extending the Dominican Model
  • Control by Private Contract
  • Opposition to Taft's Dollar Diplomacy
  • Tightening Dollar Diplomacy under Wilson
  • Public-Private Interactions and Consenting Parties
  • 4. Private Money, Public Policy, 1921-1923
  • The Postwar Political Economy and Loan Policy
  • Postwar Controlled Loans in the Western Hemisphere
  • 5. Opposition to Financial Imperialism, 1919-1926
  • The Postwar Anti-imperialist Impulse
  • "Is America Imperialistic?" Conflicting Cultural Narratives
  • Anti-imperialist Insurgency after 1924
  • The U.S. Government Backs Away
  • 6. Stabilization Programs and Financial Missions in New Guises, 1924-1928
  • Approaches to Stabilization
  • The Kemmerer Missions in South America
  • European Stabilization and the Dawes Plan
  • Poland: A Kemmerer Mission in Europe
  • Persia: The Millspaugh Mission
  • 7. Faith in Professionalism, Fascination with Primitivism
  • Professionalization and Financial Markets
  • Mass Culture and Primitivism
  • 8. Dollar Diplomacy in Decline, 1927-1930
  • The Questionable Impact of Supervisory Missions
  • Opposition to U.S. Supervision
  • Deterioration of the Bond Market and the End of Foreign Lending
  • Public Policy and the End of an Era
  • Looking Backward and Forward
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index.