Germany in Central America, 1820s to 1929: An Overview

Schoonover, Thomas

doi:10.7767/jbla.1988.25.1.33

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“…Zum Beispiel unterstützte die Firma Schlubach, Thiemer & Co. diese Anstrengungen in Guatemala mit 156,000 Mark. 75 Dort gründeten deutsche Einwanderer außerdem die Tageszeitung Eco Alemán, die seit September 1914 in spanischer Sprache erschien. Der deutsche Gesandte berichtete im Oktober 1915, dass deutsche Einwanderer das Blatt in den Städten, aber auch auf den Fincas verteilten.…”

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Umkämpfte Wirtschaften: Kaffeehandel, europäische Einwanderung und die zentralamerikanischen Ökonomien im Ersten Weltkrieg

Berth

2018

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The article discusses how the First World War affected the Central American economies mainly dependent on the export of coffee and bananas. As European immigrants played a key role in the coffee business, the article also analyzes changes in their trade networks. During the war years, conflicts existed on three levels: first, the U.S. and European powers struggled for economic influence in the region. Second, diplomats tried to exploit immigrants for their political purposes which led to tensions. Third, the Central American governments attempted to use the global conflict for their own economic interests. However, their scope was small as the Central American countries produced no strategic raw materials for war. Deteriorating coffee prices and local currencies losing value affected the regional economy. After Britain and the U.S. established Black Lists with enemy firms between 1915 and 1917, companies had to (re)define their national belonging. Given the strong presence of immigrants and the international trade networks this was a difficult task. Some firms tried to demonstrate a neutral profile, while others eliminated German partners from their business. Finally, the US expropriated German firms in Guatemala and Honduras. However, most businesses were returned to former owners around 1920. In the following decade, the US and Germany competed again for economic influence in Central America.

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Umkämpfte Wirtschaften: Kaffeehandel, europäische Einwanderung und die zentralamerikanischen Ökonomien im Ersten Weltkrieg

Berth

2018

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“…Con base en ese libro se acuñó el concepto de "enclave bananero" para referirse a las plantaciones instaladas desde 1900 en la Costa Norte de Honduras por parte de empresas estadounidenses (Vaccaro Bros and Co, United Fruit Co, Cuyamel Fruit Co y Standard Fruit Co). 4 Otras investigaciones que presentan estadísticas del comercio exterior de los países centroamericanos son: Schoonover (1978); Roses-Alvarado (1979);Schneider (1981a: 119-138); Schneider (1981b: 33-35, 59-94, 377-382, 489-495); Guevara (1983); Naylor (1988: 191-240); Schoonover y Schoonover (1989); Schoonover y Schoonover (1990); Schoonover y Schoonover (1991); Mitchell (2007: 447-458); Federico y Tena (2016: 151-152, 159-160, 174-175, 177-178, 199-200, 236, 240, 247-248, 260). RECONSTRUCCIÓN DE SERIES DE VALOR DEL COMERCIO EXTERIOR DE HONDURAS.…”

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Reconstrucción De Series De Valor Del Comercio Exterior De Honduras. 1880–1930

Díaz¹

2017

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This article presents, for the first time, a continuous series of value of Honduran exports and imports for the period 1880-1930, extending the series previously available from Notten (2012). The new series were constructed based on the official statistics of the main trading partners of Honduras (United States, Great Britain, Germany and France) corrected from Honduran and complementary sources. The correction criteria applied are based on the results of a previous reliability validation exercise. The data obtained allow to delimit a new chronology of the foreign trade of Honduras where the “export age” began before the banana export boom that took place between 1903 and 1930.

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“…75 From the Hamburg-based trade interest in Central America, through to the Prussian government's involvement in the search for trade and colonial possibilities that would secure transit rights across the Central American isthmus for German merchants, German states, on the behalf of and in conjunction with their traders, had been intensively involved with the region. 76 An excellent example is the case of Guatemala, where Germany exercised a form of economic imperialism that established itself so successfully in the nineteenth century that it caused the turn-of-the-century German diplomat F.C.…”

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“…As Thomas Schoonover has shown, the lack of a formal governmental policy of colonialism did little to slow the rate of German economic activity in South America, to the extent that Monroe Doctrine-influenced US voices were warning: "The Germans and not the British are our real competition for the trade of the whole of Spanish America." 75 From the Hamburg-based trade interest in Central America, through to the Prussian government's involvement in the search for trade and colonial possibilities that would secure transit rights across the Central American isthmus for German merchants, German states, on the behalf of and in conjunction with their traders, had been intensively involved with the region. 76 An excellent example is the case of Guatemala, where Germany exercised a form of economic imperialism that established itself so successfully in the nineteenth century that it caused the turn-of-the-century German diplomat F.C.…”

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Imperialism from Below: Informal Empire and the Private Sector in Nineteenth‐Century Germany

Fitzpatrick

2008

Aus J of Politics History

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Far from being the product of atavistic feudal remnants within German society, nineteenth‐century German imperialism stemmed from precisely the liberal milieu that had come to prominence during 1848‐49. Through an analysis of imperialist texts dealing with Central and South America, and the social logic of these imperialist works, an understanding of the nature of private sector and civil society imperialistic projects emerges that sees liberal imperialists seeking out alternatives to statist solutions in the light of political blockages to their efforts.

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Germany in Central America, 1820s to 1929: An Overview

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Umkämpfte Wirtschaften: Kaffeehandel, europäische Einwanderung und die zentralamerikanischen Ökonomien im Ersten Weltkrieg

Umkämpfte Wirtschaften: Kaffeehandel, europäische Einwanderung und die zentralamerikanischen Ökonomien im Ersten Weltkrieg

Reconstrucción De Series De Valor Del Comercio Exterior De Honduras. 1880–1930

Imperialism from Below: Informal Empire and the Private Sector in Nineteenth‐Century Germany

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