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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955369403321
• Autore: Schuler Friedrich Engelbert <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2010
• ISBN: 9780826344908; 0826344909; 9781283636919; 1283636913; 9780826344915; 0826344917
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (578 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.8052090/34
• Soggetti: Latin America Foreign relations 19th century; Latin America Foreign relations 20th century; Latin America Foreign relations Europe; Europe Foreign relations Latin America; Latin America Foreign relations Japan; Japan Foreign relations Latin America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 542-553) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: [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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.