“To Interfere on Their Behalf”: Sovereignty, Networks, and Capital in the Dominican Republic
通过19世纪末英国工程师与多米尼加商人之间的糖业抵押诉讼案，考察跨国资本网络在地方层面的运作，以及外交干预与商业网络之间的关联。
This article uses a lawsuit between British engineers and Dominican merchants over a sugar estate mortgage to examine how transnational capital networks functioned at the local level during a moment of transition in the late nineteenth-century global economy. When Dominican courts ruled against the engineers, the firm unsuccessfully sought diplomatic intervention, raising questions on the one hand about the incremental construction of Dominican sovereignty and on the other about the links between diplomatic and business networks on the ground. It is situated within calls for new approaches to the history of the Dominican Republic that utilize international archives and focus on corporate bodies, both in local and Pan-Caribbean contexts.