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.
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.
