Taking Haiti
Subtitle: military occupation and the culture of U.S. imperialism, 1915-1940
By: Mary A. Renda.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Haiti -- History -- American occupation, 1915-1934; Haiti -- History -- 1934-1986; United States -- Armed Forces -- Haiti -- History; Haiti -- Relations -- United States; United States -- Relations -- Haiti
Description: "The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years - and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of U.S. imperialism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-390) and index.