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• Title: Germany in Central America
• Author : Thomas Schoonover
• Release Date : January 08, 2013
• Genre: History,Books,Politics & Current Events,Latin America,Europe,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 3037 KB

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Using previously untapped resources including private collections,

the records of cultural institutions, and federal and state government

archives, Schoonover analyzes the German role in Central American domestic

and international relations.

Of the four countries most active in independent Central America-Britain,

the United States, France, and Germany- historians know the least about

the full extent of the involvement of the Germans.

German colonial expansion was based on its position as an industrialized

state seeking economic well-being and security in a growing world market.

German leaders were quick to recognize that ties to the cheap labor of

overseas countries could compensate for some of the costs and burdens of

conceding material and social privileges to their domestic labor force.

The Central American societies possessed limited resource bases; smaller

and poorly educated populations; and less capital, communications, and

technological development than Germany. They saw the borrowing of development

as a key to their social, economic, and political progress. Wary Central

American leaders also saw the influx of German industrialists as assurance

against excessive U.S. presence in their political economies and cultures.

Although the simplistic bargain to trade economic development for cheap

labor appeared to succeed in the short term, complex issues of German domestic

unemployment and social disorder filtered to Central American countries

and added to their own burdens. By 1929, Germany had recovered most of

its pre-World War I economic position.

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