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Race, reality, and realpolitik : U.S.-Haiti relations in the lead up to the 1915 occupation

Title
Race, reality, and realpolitik : U.S.-Haiti relations in the lead up to the 1915 occupation / Jeffrey Sommers with contributions from Patrick Delices.
Author
Sommers, Jeffrey William
Publication
Lanham ; Boulder : Lexington Books, 2016.

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Additional Authors
Delices, Patrick, 1973-
Description
xvi, 141 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references ( pages 129-139) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 16-10964
ISBN
  • 9781498509145 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  • 1498509142 (cloth : alkaline paper)
LCCN
  • 2015031384
  • 40025574703
OCLC
920453881
Author
Sommers, Jeffrey William, author.
Title
Race, reality, and realpolitik : U.S.-Haiti relations in the lead up to the 1915 occupation / Jeffrey Sommers with contributions from Patrick Delices.
Publisher
Lanham ; Boulder : Lexington Books, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 129-139) and index.
Local Note
AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE.
Chronological Term
1865-1921
Added Author
Delices, Patrick, 1973-
Other Standard Identifier
40025574703
Research Call Number
JFE 16-10964
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