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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. --Journal of Interdisciplinary History Should become the standard work on the subject. . . .required reading for specialists in Caribbean studies and U.S.-Latin American relations. --
