| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940. By Mary A. Renda. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xviii, 414 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2628-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4938-3.)

It is refreshing to see a scholar take old, well-worked materials and find new value in them. This is what Mary A. Renda has accomplished in Taking Haiti. The subject is the military occupation of the Republic of Haiti that U.S. Marines conducted from 1915 to 1934. The book is best understood as a study of the cultural characteristics and consequences of the intervention rather than as a complete narrative of its events. This innovative work is less about Haiti than about the United States. That focus allows Renda to provide new insights on the occupation by analyzing some key examples of the considerable literature on Haiti that was published in the United States during the interwar period and the unpublished accounts of the Marines themselves. . . .

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