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  Title

  Haiti : the aftershocks of history

  Author

  Dubois, Laurent, 1971-  

  Publisher:

  Metropolitan Books,

  Pub date:

  2012.

  Pages:

  434 p. :

  ISBN:

  9780805093353

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    F1921 .D83 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780805093353

  ISBN:

  0805093354

  Personal Author:

  Dubois, Laurent, 1971-

  Title:

  Haiti : the aftershocks of history / Laurent Dubois.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Metropolitan Books, 2012.

  Physical description:

  434 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

  Contents:

  Independence -- The Citadel -- Stalemate -- The sacrifice -- Looking north -- Occupation -- Second independence -- An immaterial being.

  Summary:

  Even before the 2010 earthquake, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption, and has often been blamed for its own wretchedness. But as historian Laurent Dubois makes clear, its difficulties are rooted in its founding revolution, the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world; the hostility that this rebellion generated among the colonial powers; and the intense struggle within Haiti itself to define its newfound freedom and realize its promise. Dubois vividly depicts the isolation and impoverishment that followed the 1804 uprising. He details how the indemnity imposed by the former French rulers initiated a devastating cycle of debt, while frequent interventions by the United States further undermined Haiti's independence. At the same time, Dubois shows, the internal debates about what Haiti should do with its hard-won liberty alienated the nation's leaders from the broader population, setting the stage for enduring political conflict. Yet the Haitian people have never given up on their struggle for true democracy.--From publisher description.

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  Geographic term:

  Haiti--History.

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