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11%OFFEmily S. Rosenberg - Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930 - 9780822332190 - V9780822332190
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Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930

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Description for Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930 Paperback. Combining diplomatic, economic, and cultural history, this title explains how private bank loans were extended to leverage acceptance of American financial advisers by foreign governments. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; KCLF; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
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 by foreign governments. In an analysis striking in its relevance to contemporary debates over international loans, she reveals how a practice initially justified as a progressive means to extend “civilization” by promoting economic stability and ... Read more

"[A] landmark in the historiography of American foreign relations."—Melvyn P. Leffler, author of A Preponderence of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War

"Fascinating."—Christopher Clark, Times Literary Supplement

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Series
American Encounters/Global Interactions
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822332190
SKU
V9780822332190
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About Emily S. Rosenberg
Emily S. Rosenberg is DeWitt Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College. She is the author of A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory (also published by Duke University Press) and Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945. She is coauthor of In Our Times: America since World War II and Liberty, Equality, Power: ... Read more

Reviews for Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930
"Fascinating." Christopher Clark, Times Literary Supplement "[A] major and superb contribution to the history of U.S. foreign relations ... [Rosenberg] has opened up a whole new research field in international history." Anders Stephanson, Journal of American History "[A] landmark in the historiography of American foreign relations." Melvyn P. Leffler, author of A Preponderence of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, ... Read more

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