century BC but established in the second century BC. Evidence points to a widespread settlement, developed approximately from the end of the fourth. Based on the survey, the knowledge of the archaeological sites was applied to create an overview of the settlement dynamics in the territory. This survey focuses on the situation of the landscape and the ancient settlement of Lilybaeum in the countryside behind the modern centre of Mazara del Vallo. occupation of Haiti ‘as an event in the cultural history of the United States, broadly conceived’ (p. Ultimately her book is aimed at understanding the U.S. institutions and citizens and in the process contributed ‘in unexpected ways to the matrix of an emerging U.S. The Haitians, like others, engaged with, resisted, or accommodated U.S. occupation of Haiti after 1915 was ‘one of several important arenas in which the United States was remade through overseas imperial ventures’. civilising mission, but also fed directly into the changing character of national-imperial culture in the United States itself. Marine Corps, as Renda makes clear, not only had important implications for the culture of the U.S. The occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934 and the creation of a Haitian Gendarmerie under the aegis of the U.S. In particular this emergent field of study has illuminated the role of both formal territorial expansion and the more informal types of U.S. expansion and the peoples with whom they come into contact. empire building seeking to shed light on the complexity of the interaction between the agents of U.S. Taking Haiti is part of an important and growing literature on the cultures of U.S. imperialism and the changing character of American national identity in the first half of the twentieth century. occupation of Haiti and its aftermath in relation to the wider cultural dynamics of U.S. Renda has written an engaging study of the history of the U.S.

Taking Haiti by Mary A. Renda