TY - BOOK AU - Sommers,Jeffrey William AU - Delices,Patrick TI - Race, reality, and realpolitik: U.S.-Haiti relations in the lead up to the 1915 occupation AV - E183.8.H2 S63 2016 U1 - 327.7307294 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Lanham [Maryland] PB - Lexington Books KW - Racism KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - History KW - Imperialism KW - Political realism KW - Relations KW - Haiti KW - Foreign public opinion, American KW - Territorial expansion KW - Foreign relations KW - 1865-1921 KW - Foreign economic relations KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4086473 ER -