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Wraps. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 27 cm, 109 pages. Wraps. Endpaper map. Illustrations. References. Cover has some wear and soiled. Stephen M. Fuller is assistant professor of English at Middle Georgia College. His work has been published in The Southern Quarterly, Studies in Short Fiction, and The Journal of Popular Culture. Graham Cosmas is a Professional Historian. He has taught history at U. of Texas and U. of Guam. Since 1973 he has been with U.S. Government Military History Agencies. He has served as the Deputy Director, Joint History Office, Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is the author or co-author of at least four books. In this pamphlet the record of the Marine occupation of the Dominican Republic from 1916-1924 is presented as an example of the active role played by the Marine Corps in the Caribbean region in the first three decades of the 20th Century. It was prepared principally from primary sources such as official reports, memoirs, personal correspondence, and recollection of the Marines involved. The first United States occupation of the Dominican Republic lasted from 1916 to 1924. It was one of the many interventions in Latin America undertaken by the military forces of the United States in the 20th century. On the 13 May 1916, Rear Admiral William B. Caperton forced the Dominican Republic's Secretary of War Desiderio Arias, who had seized power from Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra, to leave Santo Domingo by threatening the city with naval bombardment. The US occupation administration measured its success through these standards: the country's budget was balanced, its debt was diminished, economic growth directed now toward the US; infrastructure projects produced new roads that allowed the movement of military personnel across all the country's regions for the first time in history; a professional military organization that took away the power from local elites and made soldiers more loyal to the national government, the Dominican Constabulary Guard, replaced the former partisan forces responsible for the civil war with groups less hostile to the US occupation. …

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