The Santo Domingo Debt Protocol and Treaty (1905-1907)
Abstract
Santo Domingo, or as it has been known since 1844, the Dominican Republic, occupies the eastern portion of the fabled isle of Hispaniola. Together with Haiti, its neighbor, it has, perhaps truth- fully, bean typified as the most attractive, salubrious spot of all the West Indian islands. And yet, from the time of its discovery, it has been a hotbed of turmoil, a harbor of buccaneers and pirates, an international bone of contention strategically situated in the Caribbean, and preeminently a country where the United States could little afford to see the Monroe Doctrine violated. Truly, then, this is a land about which much has been written and about which very much more remains to be written. It is a land of numerous moods, most of them brutal and violent, a land which in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was destined to play no small part in the diplomatic history of these proud and imperialistic-minded United States.
Subject Area
Public policy|Latin American history|American history|International Relations
Recommended Citation
Sheridan, Hugh, "The Santo Domingo Debt Protocol and Treaty (1905-1907)" (1956). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28623309.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28623309
