Abstract
On April 28, 1965, Americans returned from work to discover the news in their evening papers that U.S. marines had invaded the Dominican Republic. This startling event occurred at a time when most Americans were focused on the growing war in Vietnam and the violent suppression of the civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama. “Just where the hell is the Dominican Republic anyway?” many wondered. What they failed to realize was that a similar U.S. invasion of that island nation had occurred some fifty years before. Ellen D. Tillman has written an excellent and insightful new work on the origins of that earlier occupation of 1916–1924, as well as its goals and significance for Dominican, U.S., and Latin American history. This early U.S. experiment in nation-building had strong consequences for all the parties involved and still resonates as an example of how Washington treats smaller nations that come under its imperial gaze.
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