United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934 · Default Product

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"A 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 Review "The only thoroughgoing study of one of the more discreditable American interventions overseas." —J ournal of Interdisciplinary History "Should 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 readership beyond students of Caribbean history." — Kirkus "An important and well-documented account....an interesting case study in twentieth-century imperialism. Schmidt sees the occ

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