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 Prize\ 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 U.S. foreign policy. Combining diplomatic, economic, and cultural history, the distinguished historian Emily S. Rosenberg shows how private bank loans were extended to leverage the acceptance of American financial advisers...
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The history of “dollar diplomacy,” using US financial clout to influence the actions of foreign governments.
Introduction11Gold-Standard Visions: International Currency Reformers, 1898-190542The Roosevelt Corollary and the Dominican Model of 1905313The Changing Forms of Controlled Loans under Taft and Wilson614Private Money, Public Policy, 1921-1923975Opposition to Financial Imperialism, 1919-19261226Stabilization Programs and Financial Missions in New Guises, 1924-19281517Faith in Professionalism, Fascination with Primitivism1878Dollar Diplomacy in Decline, 1927-1930219Abbreviations263Notes265Index327
