pt. 1. Manifest destinies, 1849-1910. Americanization through violence : Nicaragua under Walker -- Americanization from within : forging a cosmopolitan nationality -- pt. 2. Restoration, 1910-1912. Challenging imperial exclusions : Nicaragua under the Dawson Pact -- Bourgeois revolution denied : U.S. military intervention in the civil war of 1912 -- pt. 3. Dollar diplomacy, 1912-1927. Economic nationalism : resisting Wall Street's "feudal regime" -- Anxious landlords, resilient peasants : dollar diplomacy's socioeconomic impact -- Cultural anti-Americanism : the Caballeros Católicos' crusade against U.S. missionaries, the "modern woman," and the "bourgeois spirit" -- pt. 4. Revolution, 1927-1933. Militarization via democratization : the U.S. attack on caudillismo and the rise of authoritarian corporatism -- Revolutionary nationalism : elite conservatives, Sandino, and the struggle for a de-americanized Nicaragua. Epilogue: imperial legacies : dictatorship and revolution.