The Great Guano Rush Skaggs; Woodward Jr, Ralph Lee
The Journal of Southern History,
November 1996, 19961101, Letnik:
62, Številka:
4
Journal Article, Book Review
Recenzirano
Woodward reviews "The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion" by Jimmy M. Skaggs.
El General Edward Porter Alexander, fue uno de los Generales que se adaptaron con éxito a las condiciones de vida que siguieron a la derrota de las fuerzas confederadas en la guerra de Secesion. ...Alexander era un oficial de artillería e ingeniería y considerado por sus admiradores como el brazo derecho de Lee. Este general nativo de Georgia fue un versátil y activo representante del "Mundo Sur", hasta su muerte en Savannah en 1910. Después de haber participado en muchas inversiones comerciales y especulativas, compró en 1890, las islas de Norte y Sur en la costa de Carolina del Sur, donde se dedico al cultivo de arroz. Estas islas se convirtieron en un lugar de descanso, para sus amigos aficionados a la caza de patos, incluyendo entre estos amigos al Presidente Crover Cleveland.
Recent violence, civil war, revolution, and economic crises have focused attention on Central America. Analyses of these crises vary widely. Class struggle, Soviet or U.S. imperialism, geopolitical ...balance of power, the energy crisis, and the general malaise of the West all contribute to the turmoil on the isthmus. Yet the bitter political and economic realities of contemporary Central America are deeply rooted in the past. The present conflicts are neither recent in origin nor conducive to short-term military, economic, or political solutions. This article offers a historical interpretation of modern Central America as an explanation of the current crises. The hypothesis of this overview is that the current crises all represent the inevitable collapse of political, economic, and cultural structures erected in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to serve the interests of the elites who commanded the Liberal Reforms or Revolutions of that era, but that fail to meet the demands of the societies they created.
Conference paper; with comments (including additional citations) by Héctor Pérez Brignoli. Translated by M. Rodríguez. A review of the literature, including studies devoted to specific countries and ...to the region as a whole; some emphasis on political history.
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