Haitian History New Perspectives

Name: Haitian History New Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780415808682

ISBN-10: 0415808685

ISBN-13: 9780415808682

Edition: 2013

Authors: Alyssa Sepinwall

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Despite Haiti's proximity to the United States, and its considerable importance to our own history, Haiti barely registered in the historic consciousness of most Americans until recently. Those who struggled to understand Haiti's suffering in the earthquake of 2010 often spoke of it as the the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, but could not explain how it came to be so. In recent years, the amount of scholarship about the island has increased dramatically. Whereas once this scholarship was focused on Haiti’s political or military leaders, now the historiography of Haiti features lively debates and different schools of thought. Even as this body of knowledge has developed, it has…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 8/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



From Saint-Domingue to Haiti


Introduction



An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event




Slave Resistance (from The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below)




Saint-Domingue on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution




"I am the Subject of the King of Congo": African Political Ideology and the Haitian Revolution




Independent Haiti in a Hostile World: Haiti in the Nineteenth Century


Introduction



The Politics of "French Negroes" in the United States




Talk About Haiti: The Archive and the Atlantic's Haitian Revolution




Sword-Bearing Citizens: Militarism and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Haiti




Rural Protest and Peasant Revolt, 1804 - 1869




"The Black Republic": The Influence of the Haitian Revolution on Northern Black Political Consciousness, 1816 - 1862




From the Occupation to the Earthquake: Haiti in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries


Introduction



Under the Gun (from Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment)




VIVE 1804! The Haitian Revolution and the Revolutionary Generation of 1946




Dynastic Dictatorship: The Duvalier Years, 1957 - 1986




The Water Refugees (from AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame)




The Rise, Fall, and Second Coming of Jean-Bertrand Aristide




Eternity Lasted Less Than Sixty Seconds



Index