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This is a passionate and insightful account that finds in Haiti's traumatic history the sources of its devastating present. Even before last year's earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption. Maligned and misunderstood, the nation has long been blamed by many for its own wretchedness. But as acclaimed historian Laurent Dubois demonstrates, Haiti's troubles owe more to a legacy of international punishment for the original sin of staging the only successful slave revolt in the world.

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256 pages
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English
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Metropolitan Books
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8 Aug. 2011
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15.72 x 3.96 x 24.28 cm
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0805093354
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978-0805093353
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Laurent Dubois is the author of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, aLos Angeles Times Best Book of 2004. The Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University, Dubois has written on Haiti for theLos Angeles Times, The Nation, and the New Yorker Web site, among other publications, and is the codirector of the Haiti Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Laurent Dubois is the author of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2004. The Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University, Dubois has written on Haiti for the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and the New Yorker Web site, among other publications, and is the codirector of the Haiti Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Metropolitan Books (8 Aug. 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0805093354
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805093353
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.72 x 3.96 x 24.28 cm

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Laurent Dubois is Professor of Romance Studies and History and Faculty Director of the Forum for Scholars & Publics at Duke University. His works on the Caribbean in the Age of Revolution include the author of Avengers of the New World (Harvard University Press, 2004) and A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), which won four book prizes, including the Frederick Douglass Prize. He has also published two collections: Origins of the Black Atlantic, edited with Julius Scott (Routledge Press, 2009) and Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A History in Documents, edited with John Garrigus (Bedford Press, 2006). In 2012 he published Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (Metropolitan Books), which was reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review as well as in the Miami Herald, the Boston Globe, and the New Yorker. He recently published The Banjo: America's African Instrument (Harvard University Press 2016), for which he received a National Humanities Center Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He also was the recipient of a Mellon New Directions Fellowship to study Ethnomusicology. He has also written about sport in Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (University of California Press, 2010), as well as for The New Republic and Sports Illustrated and at his Soccer Politics Blog. His book The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer (Basic Books), will be published in March 2018.

For more information visit http://duboisl2.wordpress.com/.

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A. B. Biney

A great concise portrayal of Haitian history

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This book is a sweeping portrayal of the history of Haiti from the revolution to the tyrannical rule of Papa and Baby Doc, the rise to power of Jean Bertrand Aristide and the earthquake of Jan 2010. It is well written and outlines the shortcomings of Haiti's former leaders - from L'Ouverture, Dessalines, Christophe and many other unknown leaders who tried and failed to rule in the interests of the majority and were made to fail; those like the Docs who were backed to the hilt by empire and the former colonial masters and pillaged and plundered the country. The aftershocks of the Haitian revolution of 1804 continue to be felt today for that island continues to be punished for the audacity of seeking self-determination in choosing its first democratically elected leader and party in Fanmi Lavalas and Aristide. The Haitian elite and their American backers have continued to hold the Haitian people in contempt. The sympathies of the author lie correctly with the aspirations of the Haitian masses.

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Telling the story of Haiti from 1804 to present times. Very good read and makes you realise that although nobody wanted Haiti to succeed, the leadership made many mistakes along the way.

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James R. Maclean

Handy outline

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 14 December 2013

This is a reasonably well-organized work summarizing Haitian history between 1804 and 1963. For historical events before and after this, the book offers only a very terse summary.

There are few surprises in this book; most of the material has been available for decades and other books before have covered the same material, but few one-volume histories of Haiti exist (Heinl & Heinl's Written in Blood [1996] is difficult to find copies of). One point is that the book focuses on the depressing aspects of Haitian history, of which there are many, and then gets overwhelmed by the parade of horrors. In contrast, Elizabeth Abbott's Haiti: A Shattered Nation (2011) paints a more detailed picture by focusing on a smaller scope (viz., the end of Duvalierism).

While Dubois's narrative is mostly satisfactory, it implies that the efforts to insert Haiti into the global industrial system have failed: this is not the case, and explains a lot. I point this out because Dubois has set out to explain Haiti's present with an account of its political history; he occasionally refers to failed efforts by the elites/foreign interlocutors to modernize the economy, which are always described as failures. But Haiti has become a major nexus in the global low-wage manufacturing system, which is also important to understanding current events there.

Dubois does a fine job summarizing the succession of political catastrophes outside powers have inflicted on Haiti, but mysteriously wraps up his story with the Duvalier Regime. After that, he race through events so quickly one senses he was just determined to provide the barest tissue of narrative. By the time he gets to his much-noted critique of NGOs and their role in earthquake relief, it's a random island of detail in a sea of summary. Overall, a handy outline with a good bibliography and thoughtful analysis.

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