Secret wars and secret policies in the Americas, 1842-1929 / Friedrich E. Schuler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuler, Friedrich Engelbert, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin America--Foreign relations--19th century.

Latin America.

Latin America--Foreign relations--20th century.

Latin America--Foreign relations--Europe.

Europe--Foreign relations--Latin America.

Europe.

Latin America--Foreign relations--Japan.

Japan--Foreign relations--Latin America.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (578 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The intrigue and subterfuge revealed in this revisionist study add a fascinating new dimension to our understanding of transpacific and transatlantic politics following World War I.

Contents:

[Pt.] I. Imperial powers turn ethnic people into a security threat (1860-1914). Before European and Japanese governments manipulated immigrants in the Americas

Becoming useful : the first Japanese and German experiments with ethnic manipulations in the West

Mexico discovers Japan as a potential strategic wedge against the United States

[pt.] II. The secret warfare that established the benchmark for future Allied war fears (1910-18). The Mexican Revolution : the first complex Japanese policy in Latin America beyond diplomacy

Four waves of secret warfare

Japan's navy exploits the opportunities World War I offers

President Carranza explores warfare against the United States : certainly not a victim

The war breaks all certainties of imperialism : the Battle of Jutland and the collapse of Allied war financing

The Zimmerman telegram and its aftermath : a research update

Argentina's president Hipólito Irigoyen : personalist hispanista secret diplomacy

[pt.] III. In expectation of failure of the League of Nations (1919-22). Venustiano Carranza and Japanese spies move next to ethnic businessmen and emigrants in Latin America (1919-22)

Argentina imagines arming itself in the midst of more Japanese spying

[pt.] IV. Not acting as U.S., British, and French political idealists had hoped (1922-24). Latin American diplomats assert a policy of armed peace

Italian, German, and Japanese governments and Soviet communists resume manipulations of ethnic communities and workers in the Americas (1923)

Spain's elites lay the foundations for a global Iberian commonwealth

[pt.] V. Forging military connections for the transnational fascism of the 1930s (1925-28). Now that we can arm freely

Primo de Rivera and Alfonso XIII exploit Germany's secret rearmament

[pt.] VI. In place of an end : a sketch of the new round of secret activities.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 542-553) and index.

ISBN:

9780826344908

0826344909

9781283636919

1283636913

9780826344915

0826344917

OCLC:

817819453