Document Type
Book Review
Department/Program
Africana Studies
Department
History
Journal Title
New West Indian Guide
Pub Date
1-2017
Volume
94
Issue
3-4
First Page
381
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Abstract
"Ellen Tillman has produced a major monograph on the U.S. military occupation of the Dominican Republic between 1916 and 1924. In it she offers a novel account of the powerful national army that the occupying forces created there. Prior to the U.S. invasion, a centralized Dominican military existed only nominally. In the eyes of many U.S. policy makers, this created vulnerabilities for U.S. capital and strategic interests. Drawing heavily on Dominican as well as U.S. archival sources, Tillman demonstrates that remedying this with an effective national army shaped by, and loyal to, the U.S. government was the occupation’s most fundamental objective and enduring consequence..."
Recommended Citation
Turits, Richard L., Dollar Diplomacy by Force: Nation-Building and Resistance in the Dominican Republic (2017). New West Indian Guide, 94(3-4), 381-382.
https://www.doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09103046
DOI
https://www.doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09103046
