occupation of Haiti between 1915-1934 was one of the longest imperial interventions that the U.S. Yet this salutary shift has been marked by a striking and perplexing oversight. nation-building and empire-building, as, in the words of one scholar, "coterminous and mutually defining" projects (Kaplan 1993:17). imperialism has been constitutive of American national culture and identity at "home." They have presented compelling arguments and evidence for the historical inseparability of U.S. Such studies have shown how central questions of "culture" are to the histories of U.S. history, and related fields to examinations of the cultural dimensions of U.S. Since the early 1990s, there has been an important turn in American studies, U.S. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S.
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