Jenna Marcus Mary Renda’s Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 examines American empire and the relationship between its center and peripheries. Using a rich array of primary sources and interdisciplinary methods, Renda illuminates the interplay between domestic culture and imperial expansion through the lens of the early twentieth century American occupation of Haiti. Placing domestic cultural attitudes at the center of U.S. … Continue reading Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940