Table of Contents:
  • Markets, militaries, and modernization : U.S.-Dominican relations to 1899
  • Military diplomats and dollar diplomacy : from customs receivership to civil war
  • Involvement to invasion : military control and the defense of local sovereignty
  • A promiscuous heaping of adventurers : the constabulary experiment of 1916-1918
  • Regional negotiation and resistance : the "moralizing" versus the expedient
  • Opposing networks for change : consolidating reform and resistance after 1920
  • Products of compromise : legitimating state and military
  • Conclusion.