The National City Bank of New York and Haiti, 1909 - 1922

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ID4054059
AuthorsPeter James Hudson (0000-0003-0468-3403)
Year2013
Volume2013
Issue115
Pages91-114
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRadical History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01636545-1724733
OpenAlexW2330479860
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This essay examines the expansion of the National City Bank of New York into Haiti between the years 1909 and 1922 to demonstrate that, while National City's interest in Haiti often overlapped with the US State Department's strategic goals for the Caribbean region, this interest also emerged in the context of National City's early-twentieth century internal managerial reforms that saw the bank diversify its operations and, in an attempt to evade domestic regulatory restrictions, create new institutional forms to expedite the accumulation of capital both in the United States and abroad. The essay also recovers the biography of the little-known but controversial figure of Roger Leslie Farnham, a National City Bank vice president who is often seen as instrumental in the development of US intervention in Haiti, as a means of re-situating his historical role in fomenting the intervention while arguing that through him, we can understand how National City's encounters with Haiti were shaped by racial capitalism

Biography · Capital city · Capitalism · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · National accounts · National capital · National development · National interest · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society

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