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Race, reality, and realpolitik : U.S.-Haiti relations in the lead up to the 1915 occupation / Jeffrey Sommers with contributions from Patrick Delices.

"The year 2015 marked the centennial of the 1915 United States occupation of Haiti and Haiti's resistance to that signal event in its history. This study surveys the issues of economics, race, and realpolitik embedded in the political economy of U.S. interactions with Haiti that resulted i...

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Main Author: Sommers, Jeffrey William (Author)
Other Authors: Delices, Patrick, 1973- (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
Subjects:
United States > Relations > Haiti.
Haiti > Relations > United States.
Haiti > Foreign public opinion, American.
Racism > Political aspects > United States > History.
Imperialism > History.
Political realism > History.
United States > Territorial expansion.
United States > Foreign relations > 1865-1921.
United States > Foreign economic relations > Haiti.
Haiti > Foreign economic relations > United States.
Diplomatic relations.
Imperialism.
International economic relations.
International relations.
Political realism.
Public opinion, American.
Racism > Political aspects.
Territorial expansion.
Haiti.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Haiti and the prelude to occupation
  • Perceptions of Haiti : antebellum America before United States empire
  • Marketing uplift and empire : popular magazines during the modern colonial era
  • Hemispheric imperative to invest : Haiti and the Bulletin of the Pan American Union
  • "Shame and evil" in Haiti : power elite perspectives on Haiti and empire
  • Woodrow Wilson and Haiti : liberty, order, race, and American empire
  • Epilogue: The occupation echoes forward.

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