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Merchants, Mining, and Concessions on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast: Reassessing the American Presence, 1893–1912

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2002

MICHAEL GISMONDI  and
JEREMY MOUAT
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Abstract

This article reassesses the influence of American business on US foreign policy towards Nicaragua, 1893–1912. It describes three episodes that involved American interests in Nicaragua – the Reyes uprising of 1899, the Emery claim of 1903–1909, and the US & Nicaragua Mining Company claim of 1908–1912 – as evidence for a different interpretation of US policy, one which stresses how the influence and material interests of American ‘men on the spot’ framed the ways in which the State Department came to understand American aims in Nicaragua. Earlier accounts of ‘Dollar Diplomacy’ do not adequately acknowledge the significant political consequences of American merchant activity on the Mosquito Coast.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , November 2002 , pp. 845 - 879
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of Margarita Vannini and the staff of the Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua, our colleague Joan Sherman at Athabasca University, and funding from Athabasca University's Academic Research Fund.