Race, Reality, and Realpolitik: U.S.-Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation

by Jeffrey Sommers

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498509142
• ISBN13: 9781498509145
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"