Race, reality, and realpolitik : U.S.-Haiti relations in the lead up to the 1915 occupation /
Sommers, Jeffrey William,
Race, reality, and realpolitik : U.S.-Haiti relations in the lead up to the 1915 occupation / Jeffrey Sommers with contributions from Patrick Delices. - 1 online resource (159 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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 in occupation"--Provided by publisher.
9781498509152 (e-book)
Racism--Political aspects--History.--United States
Imperialism--History.
Political realism--History.
United States--Relations--Haiti.
Haiti--Relations--United States.
Haiti--Foreign public opinion, American.
United States--Territorial expansion.
United States--Foreign relations--1865-1921.
United States--Foreign economic relations--Haiti.
Haiti--Foreign economic relations--United States.
Electronic books.
E183.8.H2 / S63 2016
327.7307294
Race, reality, and realpolitik : U.S.-Haiti relations in the lead up to the 1915 occupation / Jeffrey Sommers with contributions from Patrick Delices. - 1 online resource (159 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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 in occupation"--Provided by publisher.
9781498509152 (e-book)
Racism--Political aspects--History.--United States
Imperialism--History.
Political realism--History.
United States--Relations--Haiti.
Haiti--Relations--United States.
Haiti--Foreign public opinion, American.
United States--Territorial expansion.
United States--Foreign relations--1865-1921.
United States--Foreign economic relations--Haiti.
Haiti--Foreign economic relations--United States.
Electronic books.
E183.8.H2 / S63 2016
327.7307294