Race, Reality, and Realpolitik - U.s.haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Perceptions of Haiti: Antebellum America Before United States Empire

Chapter 2 Marketing Uplift and Empire: Popular Magazines during the Modern Colonial Era

Chapter 3 Hemispheric Imperative to Invest: Haiti and the Bulletin of the Pan American Union

Chapter 4 "Shame and Evil" in Haiti: Power Elite Perspectives on Haiti and Empire

Chapter 5 Woodrow Wilson and Haiti: Liberty, Order, Race, and American Empire

About the author

By Jeffrey Sommers - Contributions by Patrick Delices

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sommers, Jeffrey Sommers, Sommers Jeffrey
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498509169
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0916-9
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Haiti, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, International Relations, Caribbean islands, Political Economy, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Central / national / federal government policies, C 1900 - C 1914