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- Title
Securing Hegemony through Law: Venezuela, the U.S. Asphalt Trust, and the Uses of International Law, 1904-1909.
- Authors
Coates, Benjamin
- Abstract
The article discusses the New York and Bermudez Company in Guanoco, Venezuela in the first decade of the twentieth century. The American company was the holder of a large lake of tar pitch, a main ingredient used in asphalt in the U.S. and the company relations with the Venezuelan government of president Cipriano Castro were strained over the control of the area. Efforts made by the administration of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, mainly secretary of state Elihu Root, to adopt a legal strategy to intercede in the matter without resorting to the use of military force, are detailed.
- Subjects
ASPHALT industry; HISTORY of international law; NEW York &; Bermudez Co.; ROOT, Elihu, 1845-1937; ROOSEVELT, Theodore, 1858-1919; CASTRO, Cipriano, ca. 1856-1924; FOREIGN relations of the United States -- 1901-1909; VENEZUELAN foreign relations; TWENTIETH century; INTERNATIONAL trade; HISTORY; VENEZUELAN history, 1830-1935
- Publication
Journal of American History, 2015, Vol 102, Issue 2, p380
- ISSN
0021-8723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jahist/jav353