Confronting the American Dream

Abstract

Illustrations ix Tables x Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I: Manifest Destinies, 1849-1910 19 1. Americanization through Violence: Nicaragua under Walker 21 2. Americanization from Within: Forging a Cosmopolitan Nationality 42 Part II: Restoration, 1910-1912 73 3. Challenging Imperial Exclusions: Nicaragua under the Dawson Pact 75 4. Revolution Denied: U.S. Military Intervention in the Civil War of 1912 100 Part III: Dollar Diplomacy, 1912-1927 123 5. Economic Nationalism: Resisting Wall Street's Feudal Regime 125 6. Anxious Landlords, Resilient Peasants: Dollar Diplomacy's Socioeconomic Impact 150 7. Cultural Anit-Americanism: The Caballeros Catolicos' Crusade against U.S. Missionaries, the Modern Woman, and the Bourgeois Spirit 175 Part IV: Revolution, 1927-1933 203 8. Militarization via Democratization: The U.S. Attack on Caudillismo and the Rise of Authoritarian Corporatism 205 9. Revolutionary Nationalism: Elite Conservatives, Sandino, and the Struggle for a De-Americanized Nicaragua 232 Epilogue: Imperial Legacies: Dictatorship and Revolution 267 Notes 281 Selected Bibliography 325 Index 351

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