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- Title
'AMERICA BELONGS TO AMERICANS': AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION AND THE RIVALRY U.S.- SPAIN FOR THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 1854-1865.
- Authors
Valenzuela, M. A. David Home
- Abstract
By utilizing primary sources, mainly newspapers, this article analyzes the rivalry between the US and Spain for the control of Dominican Republic by mid-nineteenth century, focusing on the responses given by the American public opinion to the Dominican Republic annexation to Spain in 1861. The article proposes that the US government, pressed by the events of the Civil War (1861-1865), neglected the foreign policy towards the hemisphere which, among other factors, allowed the intrusion of European powers in the Americas, like that of Spain in the Dominican Republic. American public opinion, on the contrary, saw with concern the Spaniards' attempts in the Caribbean debating topics such as race, slavery, masculinity, and the balance of power among the world potencies in the region.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PUBLIC opinion; HISTORY; SPAIN-United States relations; HISTORY of the Dominican Republic; ANNEXATION (County government); AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865; NINETEENTH century; UNITED States history
- Publication
Hemispheric & Polar Studies Journal / Revista Estudios Hemisféricos y Polares, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0718-9230
- Publication type
Article