《接管海地:军事占领和美国帝国主义文化,1915—1940》(Mary Renda,Taking Haiti:Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S.Imperialism,1915-1940,Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press,2001.)讨论的是美国在20世纪上半期军事占领海地的一段历史。就这段历史本身来说,中国的读者或许并不熟悉。海地是一个以黑人为主要人口的加勒比海岛国,1804年脱离法国的殖民统治获得独立。但独立后,长期内乱不断。由于海地境内有不少美国的传教士和 “Taking over Haiti: Military Occupation and American Imperialism, 1915-1940” (Mary Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of USImperialism, 1915-1940, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001) Was a period of U.S. military occupation of Haiti during the first half of the 20th century. Chinese readers may not be familiar with this history itself. Haiti is a Caribbean island nation dominated by blacks and gained independence in 1804 from colonial rule in France. But after independence, long-term civil strife continued. Because there are many American missionaries in Haiti