Description
Book SynopsisA good history of a sordid intervention that submitted a people to autocratic rule and did little for economic development. The New York Times From Schmidt we get the full details . . . of the brutal racist practices inflicted on the Haitians for nearly all of the nineteen-year American presence in the country. American Historical ReviewThe only thoroughgoing study of one of the more discreditable American interventions overseas. Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryShould become the standard work on the subject. . . .required reading for specialists in Caribbean studies and U.S.-Latin American relations. Choice A valuable addition to Latin American and U.S. historiography. Library Journal Schmidt sees American racism, bondholders cultures, the technocratic side of Progressivism, and the National City Bank looting of Haiti as the factors motivating Wilson's 1915 invasion....As a detailed case study in an exceptional manifestation of U. S. imperial control the book will attract a readers
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Haiti before the Intervention
The Decision to Intervene
The Intervention
The Marines Take Charge
Reorganization and Rationalization
Racial and Cultural Tension
Uplift The Prospects
Uplift Success and Failure
Strikes and Riots
Withdrawal
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
