Michel Gobat: 2 books
Confronting the American Dream
Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid–nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912–33. Drawing on extensive research...
Empire by Invitation
William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Michel Gobat traces the untold story of the rise and fall of the first U.S. overseas empire to William Walker, a believer in the nation’s manifest destiny to spread its blessings not only westward but abroad as well. In the 1850s Walker and a small group of U.S. expansionists migrated to Nicaragua...