Author: Mrs. Alfred HortPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Via Nicaragua
Author: Mrs. Alfred HortPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Westward Via Nicaragua
Author: David Izatt FolkmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Nicaragua Canal Bill
Author: Theodore Elijah BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals, Interoceanic
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Confronting the American Dream
Author: Michel GobatPublisher: 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.
Nicaragua Canal
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nicaragua Canal (Nicaragua)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Nicaragua Canal Company
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nicaragua Canal (Nicaragua)
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
H.O. Pub
Author: United States. Hydrographic OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: V!VA Travel Guides Nicaragua
Author: Paula NewtonPublisher: Viva Publishing Network
ISBN: 0979126487
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This June 2010 version is the most up-to-date travel guide to Nicaragua available anywhere. With this guide you can: - Surf hidden breaks uncovered by local surfers - Summit active volcanoes, zipline over lush rainforest, sit and sip at one of the country's many organic coffee farms, or hang your hammock in a remote Caribbean village - Float through the pristine rain forest that lines the Rio San Juan, tracing the Costa Rican border from Lake Nicaragua to the Caribbean Sea. - Navigate the border crossings with Costa Rica and get around Nicaragua by bus, boat and puddle jumper airplane - Understand the Nicaraguan people and how you can help them live a better life by traveling responsibly - Stay a while volunteering or studying Spanish in Granada, Ometepe, San Juan del Sur or Leon Why settle for an outdated guidebook? The V!VA community of on-the-ground travel writers, local experts and travelers like you are continuously updating and improving this guide at vivatravelguides.com. Join them, and together we'll make the best guidebook to Nicaragua even better.
The Nicaragua Route
Author: David I. FolkmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nicaragua Canal (Nicaragua)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description