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Maryland senator Isidor Rayner, the most articulate opponent of the Roosevelt/Taft Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean Basin. We'll be reading parts of one of his speeches for today's class. |
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October 11 |
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The Progressive Consensus |
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Maryland senator Isidor Rayner, the most articulate opponent of the Roosevelt/Taft Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean Basin. We'll be reading parts of one of his speeches for today's class. |
| The tumultuous regional events of 1901-1912 also encouraged new thinking about the proper US role in the hemisphere. Gradually, a new consensus emerged, one that sought to apply the lessons of progressivism to inter-American relations as part of a broader search for alternatives to intervention. |
| But implementing this ideology proved quite a challenge. We saw some of the potential problems in the readings for last class on the Dominican Republic; we see more in today's reading on Haiti. And then three documents dealing with a renewed debate on the Monroe Doctrine--from TR himself, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Isidor Rayner. |
COURSE PACKET:
Plummer, Haiti and the Great Powers, 1st article, new SB
DOCUMENTS:
"Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine
"Lodge Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine
"Rayner Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine