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Financial Missionaries to the World : The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930
Financial Missionaries to the World The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy 19001930 Author:Emily S. Rosenberg Emily Rosenberg suggests that recent, perplexing questions about how to standardize practices within the global financial system go back to the early decades of this century. Then, dollar diplomacy--the practice of extending private U.S. bank loans in exchange for financial supervision over other nations--provided America's major approach to sta... more »bilizing economies overseas and expanding its influence. In her innovative, interdisciplinary study, Rosenberg shows how these arrangements became central to foreign policy debates during the 1920s and how they interrelated with broad cultural notions of racial destiny, professional expertise, and the virtues of manliness.« less