Haiti and the United States: the psychological moment

324 Pages·1992·6.202 MB·English

by  Brenda Gayle Plummer

The United States and the Americas
HAITI AND
THE UNITED STATES
The Psychological
Moment
BRENDA GAYLE PLUMMER

The United States and the Americas
Lester D. Langley, General Editor
This series is dedicated to a broader
understanding of the political, economic, and
especially cultural forces and issues that have
shaped tYie Western hemispheric experience—
its governments and its peoples. Individual
volumes assess relations between the United
States and its neighbors to the south and north:
Mexico, Central America, Cuba, the
Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama,
Colombia, Venezuela, the Andean Republics
(Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia), Brazil, Uruguay
and Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, and Canada.

The United States and the Americas
Haiti and the United States

Brenda Gayle Plummer
Haiti and the
United States:
The Psychological
Moment
The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London
© 1992 by the University of Georgia Press
Athens, Georgia 30602 '
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Set in 10 on 14 Palatino
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Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Plummer, Brenda Gayle.
Haiti and the United States : the psychological
moment I Brenda Gayle Plummer.
p. cm. — (The United States and the Americas)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-8203-1422-6 (alk. paper). — isbn 0-8203-1423-4
(pbk. : alk. paper)
1. United States—Relations—Haiti. 2. Haiti—Relations—
United States. 3. Haiti—History.
I. Title. II. Series. E183.8.H2P55 1992
303.48'27307294—dc20 91-34105
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This book is for Robert Baldwin Plummer