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Warrior to Priest...Presidents of the Early 1900s: Taft's Dollar Diplomacy
As president, Taft's main foreign policy interest is extending American investments into less-developed regions, a strategy known as "dollar diplomacy." Custom receiverships are set up in the Caribbean to create a stable environment for canal. But i...
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Haiti and Dominican Republic: An Island Divided
In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed in a society whose people reflect centuries of intermarriage, and how the country's troubled history with Haiti informs notions of racial classification. In H...