Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism 1915-1940. MARY A. RENDA: Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Abstract

Mary Renda’s book about the United States occupation of Haiti between 1915 and 1934 addresses two different questions: how US culture was used in the justification of the occupation and how military presence in Haiti contributed to the transformation of culture in the US between 1920 and 1940. It is not a history of the occupation, nor does it purport to explain the causes or effects of it, although enough background is provided to make the book accessible to non-specialists on Haiti.