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A Peculiar Empire Is Born: The United States and the Caribbean, 1898 A Peculiar Empire Is Born: The United States and the Caribbean, 1898
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Rural Autonomy and Statelessness in the Dominican Republic and Haiti Rural Autonomy and Statelessness in the Dominican Republic and Haiti
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Occupation in the Dominican Republic and Haiti Occupation in the Dominican Republic and Haiti
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After Occupation: A State beyond Challenge After Occupation: A State beyond Challenge
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4 U.S. Occupations in the Independent Caribbean
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Published:December 2019
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on the three largest and only independent nations of the Caribbean at the turn of the twentieth century – Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic – and their vulnerability to and struggles with a new overseas power in the region, the United States. At the time, hard-earned forms of popular land access and their defence against expanding U.S. plantations and local land owners by armed rural bands and others impeded the development of central state control over rural populations and economies, control sought by both local elites and the U.S. government and corporations. This peasant autonomy and resistance, and what U.S. leaders perceived as overall failed central states in their “backyard,” shaped long and repeated U.S. military occupations of these countries. Resistance to U.S. rule was fierce, widespread, and armed, but the U.S. military withdrew only after it established powerful national militaries and effective central states expected to be dutiful to U.S. interests. These militaries were crucial to the post-occupation rise of some of the most ruthless and long-lasting dictators in Caribbean history.
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