Author: Herbert HooverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Years of adventure, 1874-1920
Author: Herbert HooverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Depression
Author: D. Jerome TwetonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States: Record groups 1-170
Author: United States. National Archives and Records AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public records
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The Invaded
Author: Alan McPhersonPublisher:
ISBN: 0195343034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
In 1912 the United States sent troops into a Nicaraguan civil war, solidifying a decades-long era of military occupations in Latin America driven by the desire to rewrite the political rules of the hemisphere. In this definitive account of the resistance to the three longest occupations-in Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic-Alan McPherson analyzes these events from the perspective of the invaded themselves, showing why people resisted and why the troops eventually left. Confronting the assumption that nationalism primarily drove resistance, McPherson finds more concrete-yet also more passionate-motivations: hatred for the brutality of the marines, fear of losing land, outrage at cultural impositions, and thirst for political power. These motivations blended into a potent mix of anger and resentment among both rural and urban occupied populations. Rejecting the view that Washington withdrew from Latin American occupations for moral reasons, McPherson details how the invaded forced the Yankees to leave, underscoring day-to-day resistance and the transnational network that linked New York, Havana, Mexico City, and other cities. Political culture, he argues, mattered more than military or economic motives, as U.S. marines were determined to transform political values and occupied peoples fought to conserve them. Occupiers tried to speed up the modernization and centralization of these poor, rural societies and, ironically, to build nationalism where they found it lacking. Based on rarely seen documents in three languages and five countries, this lively narrative recasts the very nature of occupation as a colossal tragedy, doomed from the outset to fail. In doing so, it offers broad lessons for today's invaders and invaded.
Records of the United States Marine Corps
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Inventory of Federal Archives in the States
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States: Record groups 171-515
Author: United States. National Archives and Records AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Inventory of Federal Archives in the States
Author: Survey of Federal Archives (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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