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|a Hudson, Peter James
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|a Bankers and empire
|h Elektronische Ressource
|b how Wall Street colonized the Caribbean
|c Peter James Hudson
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|a Chicago
|b The University of Chicago Press
|c 2017, 2017
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|a 1 online resource
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|a Includes bibliographical references and index
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|a United States / Foreign economic relations / Caribbean Area
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|a Caribbean Area / Foreign economic relations / United States
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|a United States / Economic conditions / 20th century
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|a Caribbean Area / Economic conditions / 20th century
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|a Banks and banking / Caribbean Area / History / 20th century
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|a Banks and banking / United States / History / 20th century
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|a Capitalism / United States
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|a Imperialism / Economic aspects / United States
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|a United States of America, USA. / thema
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|a 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 / thema
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|a History of the Americas / thema
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|a Oxford University Press
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|a Previously issued in print: 2017
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|a From the end of the 19th century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. The precursors to institutions like Citibank and JPMorgan Chase, as well as a host of long-gone and lesser-known financial entities, sought to push out their European rivals so that they could control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local sovereignty, grappled with domestic banking regulation, and backed US imperialism - but they also set the model for bad behaviour by banks, visible still today. Peter James Hudson tells the provocative story of this period, taking a close look at both the institutions and individuals who defined this era of American capitalism in the West Indies
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