Author: Patricia Miller Rains
Publisher: Mexico Boating Guide
ISBN: 9780963847027
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Cruising Ports
Author: Patricia Miller Rains
Publisher: Mexico Boating Guide
ISBN: 9780963847027
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: Mexico Boating Guide
ISBN: 9780963847027
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Confronting the American Dream
Author: Michel Gobat
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822387182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid–nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912–33. Drawing on extensive research in Nicaraguan and U.S. archives, Gobat accounts for two seeming paradoxes that have long eluded historians of Latin America: that Nicaraguans so strongly embraced U.S. political, economic, and cultural forms to defend their own nationality against U.S. imposition and that the country’s wealthiest and most Americanized elites were transformed from leading supporters of U.S. imperial rule into some of its greatest opponents. Gobat focuses primarily on the reactions of the elites to Americanization, because the power and identity of these Nicaraguans were the most significantly affected by U.S. imperial rule. He describes their adoption of aspects of “the American way of life” in the mid–nineteenth century as strategic rather than wholesale. Chronicling the U.S. occupation of 1912–33, he argues that the anti-American turn of Nicaragua’s most Americanized oligarchs stemmed largely from the efforts of U.S. bankers, marines, and missionaries to spread their own version of the American dream. In part, the oligarchs’ reversal reflected their anguish over the 1920s rise of Protestantism, the “modern woman,” and other “vices of modernity” emanating from the United States. But it also responded to the unintended ways that U.S. modernization efforts enabled peasants to weaken landlord power. Gobat demonstrates that the U.S. occupation so profoundly affected Nicaragua that it helped engender the Sandino Rebellion of 1927–33, the Somoza dictatorship of 1936–79, and the Sandinista Revolution of 1979–90.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822387182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid–nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912–33. Drawing on extensive research in Nicaraguan and U.S. archives, Gobat accounts for two seeming paradoxes that have long eluded historians of Latin America: that Nicaraguans so strongly embraced U.S. political, economic, and cultural forms to defend their own nationality against U.S. imposition and that the country’s wealthiest and most Americanized elites were transformed from leading supporters of U.S. imperial rule into some of its greatest opponents. Gobat focuses primarily on the reactions of the elites to Americanization, because the power and identity of these Nicaraguans were the most significantly affected by U.S. imperial rule. He describes their adoption of aspects of “the American way of life” in the mid–nineteenth century as strategic rather than wholesale. Chronicling the U.S. occupation of 1912–33, he argues that the anti-American turn of Nicaragua’s most Americanized oligarchs stemmed largely from the efforts of U.S. bankers, marines, and missionaries to spread their own version of the American dream. In part, the oligarchs’ reversal reflected their anguish over the 1920s rise of Protestantism, the “modern woman,” and other “vices of modernity” emanating from the United States. But it also responded to the unintended ways that U.S. modernization efforts enabled peasants to weaken landlord power. Gobat demonstrates that the U.S. occupation so profoundly affected Nicaragua that it helped engender the Sandino Rebellion of 1927–33, the Somoza dictatorship of 1936–79, and the Sandinista Revolution of 1979–90.
The Fight for the Panama Route
Author: Dwight Carroll Miner
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714615028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
S. 408-412: The Spooner Act
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714615028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
S. 408-412: The Spooner Act
Unfinished Revolution
Author: Kenneth E. Morris
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569767564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Together with his brother Humberto, Daniel Ortega Saavedra masterminded the only victorious Latin American revolution since Fidel Castro's in Cuba. Following the triumphant 1979 Nicaraguan revolution, Ortega was named coordinator of the governing junta, and then in 1984 was elected president by a landslide in the country's first free presidential election. The future was full of promise. Yet the United States was soon training, equipping, and financing a counterrevolutionary force inside Nicaragua while sabotaging its crippled economy. The result was a decade-long civil war. By 1990, Nicaraguans dutifully voted Ortega out and the preferred candidate of the United States in. And Nicaraguans grew poorer and sicker. Then, in 2006, Daniel Ortega was reelected president. He was still defiantly left-wing and deeply committed to reclaiming the lost promise of the Revolution. Only time will tell if he succeeds, but he has positioned himself as an ally of Castro and Hugo Ch&ávez, while life for many Nicaraguans is finally improving. Unfinished Revolution is the first full-length biography of Daniel Ortega in any language. Drawing from a wealth of untapped sources, it tells the story of Nicaragua's continuing struggle for liberation through the prism of the Revolution's most emblematic yet enigmatic hero.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569767564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Together with his brother Humberto, Daniel Ortega Saavedra masterminded the only victorious Latin American revolution since Fidel Castro's in Cuba. Following the triumphant 1979 Nicaraguan revolution, Ortega was named coordinator of the governing junta, and then in 1984 was elected president by a landslide in the country's first free presidential election. The future was full of promise. Yet the United States was soon training, equipping, and financing a counterrevolutionary force inside Nicaragua while sabotaging its crippled economy. The result was a decade-long civil war. By 1990, Nicaraguans dutifully voted Ortega out and the preferred candidate of the United States in. And Nicaraguans grew poorer and sicker. Then, in 2006, Daniel Ortega was reelected president. He was still defiantly left-wing and deeply committed to reclaiming the lost promise of the Revolution. Only time will tell if he succeeds, but he has positioned himself as an ally of Castro and Hugo Ch&ávez, while life for many Nicaraguans is finally improving. Unfinished Revolution is the first full-length biography of Daniel Ortega in any language. Drawing from a wealth of untapped sources, it tells the story of Nicaragua's continuing struggle for liberation through the prism of the Revolution's most emblematic yet enigmatic hero.
Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance of the United States
Author: United States. Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
Book Description
Outlook
Author: Alfred Emanuel Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
Annual Report of the Postmaster General
Author: United States. Post Office Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leprosy
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leprosy
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
Republican Campaign Text Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description