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Author Roorda, Eric.

Title The dictator next door : the good neighbor policy and the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945 / Eric Paul Roorda.

Publication Info. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1998.

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 Moore Stacks  E183.8.D6 R59 1998    Available  ---
Description xii, 337 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series American encounters/global interactions
American encounters/global interactions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index.
Contents Dominican history, the United States in the Caribbean and the origins of the good neighbor policy -- The Dominican revolution of 1930 and the policy of nonintervention -- The bankrupt neighbor policy: depression diplomacy and the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council -- What will the neighbors think? Dictatorship and diplomacy in the public eye -- Genocide next door: the Haitian massacre of 1937 and the Sosua Jewish refugee settlement -- Gold braid and striped pants: the culture of foreign relations in the Dominican Republic -- Fortress America, Fortaleza Trujillo: The Hull-Trujillo Treaty and the Second World War -- The good neighbor policy and dictatorship.
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- Dominican Republic.
United States.
International relations.
Dominican Republic.
Dominican Republic -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Dominican Republic -- History -- 1930-1961.
History.
Chronological Term 1930-1961
Subject Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961.
Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961.
ISBN 0822321238 paperback alkaline paper
082232234X alkaline paper