{"product_id":"financial-missionaries-to-the-world-9780822332190","title":"Financial Missionaries to the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining diplomatic, economic, and cultural history, this title explains how private bank loans were extended to leverage acceptance of American financial advisers by foreign governments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, and the Cold War \"In an analysis that is relevant to contemporary debates over international loans, she reveals how a practice initially justified as a progressive means to extend 'civilization' by promoting economic progress became embroiled in controversy.\"--Macalester Today \"This is an impressive scholarly work that will appeal to many interested in economic and political diplomacy with a cultural dimension.\"-- Alan P. Dobson, Journal of American Studies \"[F]or readers of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, the book's most interesting features are probably its uses of cultural analysis to enhance our understanding of policy history... The volume can still be seen as timely.\"-- Ellis W. Hawley, Journal of Interdisciplinary History \"Rosenberg's book is well-written and accessible to advanced undergraduate students. The book is well suited for supplementary reading in courses dealing with American economic and diplomatic history and it can serve as an excellent example of the \"new\" postmodern diplomatic history in courses emphasizing historiography.\"--Jerald Combs, The History Teacher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1 Gold-Standard Visions: International Currency Reformers, 1898-1905 4\u003cbr\u003e The Meanings of Money and Markets 5\u003cbr\u003e Turning Silver Standards into Gold 12\u003cbr\u003e The Commission on International Exchange 18\u003cbr\u003e The New Specialists in International Financial Advising 23\u003cbr\u003e 2 The Roosevelt Corollary and the Dominican Model of 1905 31\u003cbr\u003e Gender, Race, National Interest, and Civilization 31\u003cbr\u003e The Dominican Model 41\u003cbr\u003e Development of Investment Banking 47\u003cbr\u003e International Precedents for Fiscal Control 52\u003cbr\u003e Fiscal Control through Public-Private Partnership 56\u003cbr\u003e 3 The Changing Forms of Controlled Loans under Taft and Wilson 61\u003cbr\u003e Extending the Dominican Model 62\u003cbr\u003e Control by Private Contract 71\u003cbr\u003e Opposition to Taft's Dollar Diplomacy 77\u003cbr\u003e Tightening Dollar Diplomacy under Wilson 79\u003cbr\u003e Public-Private Interactions and Consenting Parties 93\u003cbr\u003e 4 Private Money, Public Policy, 1921-1923 97\u003cbr\u003e The Postwar Political Economy and Loan Policy 97\u003cbr\u003e Postwar Controlled Loans in the Western Hemisphere 108\u003cbr\u003e 5 Opposition to Financial Imperialism, 1919-1926 122\u003cbr\u003e The Postwar Anti-imperialist Impulse 124\u003cbr\u003e \"Is America Imperialistic?\" Conflicting Cultural Narratives 131\u003cbr\u003e Anti-imperialist insurgency after 1924 137\u003cbr\u003e The U.S. Government Backs Away 147\u003cbr\u003e 6 Stabilization Programs and Financial Missions in New Guises, 1924-1928 151\u003cbr\u003e Approaches to Stabilization 151\u003cbr\u003e The Kemmerer Missions in South America 155\u003cbr\u003e European Stabilization and the Dawes Plan 166\u003cbr\u003e Poland: A Kemmerer Mission in Europe 176\u003cbr\u003e Persia: The Millspaugh Mission 183\u003cbr\u003e 7 Faith in Professionalism, Fascination with Primitivism 187\u003cbr\u003e Professionalization and Financial Markets 187\u003cbr\u003e Mass Culture and Primitivism 198\u003cbr\u003e 8 Dollar Diplomacy in Decline, 1927-1930 219\u003cbr\u003e The Questionable Impact of Supervisory Missions 220\u003cbr\u003e Opposition to U.S. Supervision 230\u003cbr\u003e Deterioration of the Bond Market and the End of Foreign Lending 240\u003cbr\u003e Public Policy and the End of an Era 247\u003cbr\u003e Looking Backward and Forward 253\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations 263\u003cbr\u003e Notes 265\u003cbr\u003e Index 327\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406033854807,"sku":"9780822332190","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822332190.jpg?v=1730494315","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/financial-missionaries-to-the-world-9780822332190","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}