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🇺🇸 💵 📖 **Forsyth on Bridges, 'Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower'**

“_The author writes that by focusing on finance she is analyzing the infrastructure of America’s global expansion. Territorial expansion, beginning with the Spanish-American War, meant that the American state required an infrastructure of payments and finance, and so did American business as it internationalized. The decisive events in this narrative include the Spanish-American War, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, World War I, the recession of 1920-21, and the Great Depression._”

Douglas J. Forsyth. Review of Bridges, Mary. Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. March, 2025. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=61536 .

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Cumplí mi reto de #Goodreads pero algunas entradas fueron series de cómics. Estoy intentando leer algunas novelas cortas en estos días. Recomendaciones?

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I've finished: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

I have mixed feelings.

Overall this was a pleasant listen.

I didn't put In the Lives of Puppets down.

I did have trouble with the dissonance between the cartoonish characters and the genocidal world they live in.

Nurse Rached and Rambo got on my nerves. Their constant over-acting kept taking me out of the story.
It was the more rounded characters that kept me going, Geo, and the growing relationship between Vic and Hap.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b3fcb5ba-ad8f-41ef-8eff-8b6eda908c8d

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Just finished Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Book 1) by James SA Corey. It's my second time through and it's just as good as the first.

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