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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Manley, Elizabeth

Titel

BUILDING AN UNCERTAIN EMPIRE? THE U.S. POLITICS OF HEGEMONY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Ist Teil von

• Reviews in American History, 2017-06, Vol.45 (2), p.275-280

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]both works demonstrate that returning to foundational approaches of economics and military force can be engaging and, more importantly, enlightening of sometimes neglected narratives. [...]given the many discursive and technological transformations around sugar over the period of study, the late 1930s also saw a change from refined to “direct-consumption” sugar that mirrored the larger transition away from a rhetoric that linked consumption of unprocessed sugar with a lack of civilization. [...]U.S. administrators on the ground and policymakers in Washington were constantly resorting to makeshift adaptations to their own plans for occupation or abandoning certain practices altogether. In looking to the details of the perceived key to the occupation—building a National Guard capable of maintaining stability and centralizing control over the population—Tillman highlights the many flawed and paternalist approaches assumed by those directing and implementing empire across the region, the global obstacles that often intervened (sugar and world war, for example), and the policy imperatives of stability that would continue to center U.S. discussions about the region for the next three decades.