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Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment
by Peter Hallward  Publisher Comments Riveting exposé of US-led destruction of democratic government in Haiti. Once the most lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has become one of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world. In the late 1980s a remarkable...
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An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
by Randall Robinson Publisher Comments On February 29th, 2004 the democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to leave his country. The twice elected President was kidnapped, along with his Haitian-American wife, American soldiers and flown, against his will,...
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Getting Haiti Right This Time: The U.S. and the Coup (Read & Resist Series)
by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Did Aristide leave Haiti voluntarily? Why did the U.S. want him out? What does the regime change mean for the health of Haitians? Did Aristide "overstay his welcome,"in the words of Vice President Dick Cheney, who never had a welcome in his own country...
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AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
by Paul Farmer Synopsis "Praise for the first edition: "Farmer's sensitive exploration of the lives and deaths of the people at [the village of] Do Kay give his study a distinctly human face and an emotional edge.... The book is at the same time fiercely personal and coldly...
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Papa Doc & the Tontons Macoutes
by Bernard Diederich Book News Annotation First published in 1969 under the title Papa Doc: Haiti and Its Dictator, this work presents a journalistic account of the regime of Haitian dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier for its ten years in power. Journalists Diederich and Burt pay particular...
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Hideous Dream: Special Operations, Racism, and Imperialism in the Haiti Invasion of 1994
by Stanley Goff Synopsis After a distinguished career in the military -- most of it in elite Ranger, Special Forces, and counter-terrorist units -- Stan Goff refused to turn away from the implications of his own experience. In Haiti, unable to any longer support the...
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The Uses of Haiti
by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments The Uses of Haiti tells the truth about uncomfortable matters-uncomfortable, that is, for the structures of power and the doctrinal framework that protects them from scrutiny. It tells the truth about what has been happening in Haiti, and the US role in...
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Toussaint Louverture (07 Edition)
by Bell Publisher Comments In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after...
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Toussaint Louverture: A Biography (Vintage)
by Madison Smartt Bell Publisher Comments At the end of the 1700s, French Saint Domingue was the richest and most brutal colony in the Western Hemisphere. A mere twelve years later, however, Haitian rebels had defeated the Spanish, British, and French and declared independence after the first...
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Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
by Randall Robinson Publisher Comments On February 29, 2004, the first democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to leave his country. The president was kidnapped, along with his Haitian-American wife, by American soldiers and flown to the isolated Central...
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Georges Woke Up Laughing- PB
by Nina Glick Schiller Synopsis "Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Eugene Fouron do a masterful job of describing the full spectrum of factors shaping the experience of migration, ranging from utopian dreams of the home country to the hard reality that some states are only apparent...
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Haiti: A Slave Revolution: 200 Years After 1804
by Pat Chin Publisher Comments Haiti's slave revolution and its continual resistance to occupation and dictatorship are recounted through the Haitian art, poetry, photos, and essays included in this exciting anthology. The agonies and exaltations of the country and its people will...
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Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier
by Amy Wilentz Synopsis Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti's extraordinary past, Amy Wilentz, a brilliant young writer/ reporter, brings to life this turbulent and fascinating country....
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
by Cyril Lionel Robert James Publisher Comments A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the...
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Haiti in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture (In Focus Guides)
by Charles Arthur Synopsis "Haiti in Focus" is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to this fascinating country. It explores the land, history and politics, economy, society and people, culture and environment, and includes tips on where to go and what to see....
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Haiti, History, and the Gods
by Joan Dayan Publisher Comments In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in...
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AIDS and Accusation (Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care)
by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers in the affirmative with...
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Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection
by Jeremy D. Popkin Publisher Comments The only truly successful slave uprising in the Atlantic world, the Haitian Revolution gave birth to the first independent black republic of the modern era. Inspired by the revolution that had recently roiled their French rulers, black slaves and people...
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Haiti Hope for a Fragile State
by Yasmine Shamsie Publisher Comments This book...avoids the political debates about Jean-Bertrand Aristide that dominate so many current writings about Haiti. Its focus is the society itself, the sources of difference, the origins of violence, and the possibility of change....The superb...
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Haiti Anthology Libete
by Charles Arthur
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