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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.

Publication Info. Lanham ; Boulder : Lexington Books, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 141 pages)
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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.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject United States -- Relations -- Haiti.
United States.
Relations.
Haiti.
Haiti -- Relations -- United States.
Haiti -- Foreign public opinion, American.
Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
Racism -- Political aspects.
History.
Imperialism -- History.
Imperialism.
Political realism -- History.
Political realism.
United States -- Territorial expansion.
Territorial expansion.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1865-1921.
International relations.
Chronological Term 1865-1921
Subject International economic relations.
United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Haiti.
Haiti -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
Public opinion, American.
Diplomatic relations.
Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Racism.
Added Author Delices, Patrick, 1973-
Other Form: Print version: Race, reality, and realpolitik Lanham ; Lexington Books, 2016. 9781498509145 (cloth : alkaline paper) (DLC) 2015031384
ISBN 9781498509152 ebook
1498509150
9781498509145 cloth : alkaline paper
1498509142