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Sugar and Power in the Dominican Republic: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Trujillos. By Michael R. Hall. (Westport: Greenwood, 2000. xii, 163 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-313-31127-- 7.)
Michael R. Hall indicates that his monograph "is an examination of the powerful impact that sugar had on US-Dominican Relations between 1958 and 1962." Unfortunately, less than one-half of the book is actually devoted to the period 1958-1962, and his discussion of that period is less complete than this reader would have wanted. On the other hand, scholars of American foreign relations will find the monograph an intriguing portrayal of the establishment of America's backyard in the Caribbean. Hall presents a case study of the establishment of an "informal empire" (hegemony in Hall's terms) in the Caribbean; as such, he has provided an incisive account of the ways...