Haiti Between Pestilence And Hope

Author : Fritznel D. Octave
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781662923784

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Haiti Between Pestilence and Hope by Fritznel D. Octave Pdf

Haiti Between Pestilence and Hope: The Progressive Ideals from the Revolution of 1804 Set the Pace brilliantly presents Haiti's entire socio-political and economic history with poignant analysis into a mere eight chapters. From the relatively peaceful and stable pre-colonial period, to the illustrious independence victory, and concluding with Haiti’s current struggles. This book offers unique assistance with understanding Haiti's political instability, social discords, and economic woes without falling into bias theory. It relates the story of a valiant, resilient, creative, imaginative, and mysterious people with objectivity. Above all, it not only diagnoses Haiti's problems but also goes deep into the root causes of those problems and proposes solutions to resolve them and build a better future for Haiti. No matter who you are, young or old, native Haitian or not, a student or professional interested in real knowledge about Haiti, this book is for you. Whether you are a decision-maker or simply interested in Haiti's affairs, you will learn about Haiti’s challenges both past and present, and its hope for the future.

Author : Myriam J. A. Chancy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438495118

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Spirit of Haiti by Myriam J. A. Chancy Pdf

Vivid and poignant, Spirit of Haiti follows the intersecting lives of four young witnesses to military-ruled Haiti during the early 1990s. Léah, an apparition, rises from the sea like a siren one morning off the coast of Cap Haitien, clothes untouched by water, blue stones wrapped around her neck, eyes blind to light. Soon to be a mother, Carmen returns to Haiti from Canada as if responding to the call of the vodou spirits. Alexis flees the island in search of a land without strife. Finally, there is Philippe, who walks the northern hills alert to ancestral voices still haunting its peaks and valleys. Doing what he must to get by in the tourist trade and now weakened by illness, he struggles to maintain spiritual dignity and a hold on hope. First published in 2003 and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize in the Caribbean and Canada region, Spirit of Haiti is a novel about confronting the failings of the human heart and the triumph of memory over despair.

Author : Sibylle Fischer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822385509

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Modernity Disavowed by Sibylle Fischer Pdf

Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and cultural records over the past two hundred years, Sibylle Fischer contends that revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent disavowal are central to the formation and understanding of Western modernity. She develops a powerful argument that the denial of revolutionary antislavery eventually became a crucial ingredient in a range of hegemonic thought, including Creole nationalism in the Caribbean and G. W. F. Hegel’s master-slave dialectic. Fischer draws on history, literary scholarship, political theory, philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory to examine a range of material, including Haitian political and legal documents and nineteenth-century Cuban and Dominican literature and art. She demonstrates that at a time when racial taxonomies were beginning to mutate into scientific racism and racist biology, the Haitian revolutionaries recognized the question of race as political. Yet, as the cultural records of neighboring Cuba and the Dominican Republic show, the story of the Haitian Revolution has been told as one outside politics and beyond human language, as a tale of barbarism and unspeakable violence. From the time of the revolution onward, the story has been confined to the margins of history: to rumors, oral histories, and confidential letters. Fischer maintains that without accounting for revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent disavowal, Western modernity—including its hierarchy of values, depoliticization of social goals having to do with racial differences, and privileging of claims of national sovereignty—cannot be fully understood.

Author : Laurent Dubois
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805095623

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Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois Pdf

A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history Even before the 2010 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 makes clear, Haiti's troubled present can only be understood by examining its complex past. The country's difficulties are inextricably 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 surrounding the island nation; 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 crushing indemnity imposed by the former French rulers initiated a devastating cycle of debt, while frequent interventions by the United States—including a twenty-year military occupation—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 as Dubois demonstrates, the Haitian people have never given up on their struggle for true democracy, creating a powerful culture insistent on autonomy and equality for all. Revealing what lies behind the familiar moniker of "the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere," this indispensable book illuminates the foundations on which a new Haiti might yet emerge.

Author : David Patrick Geggus,Norman Fiering
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253220172

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The World of the Haitian Revolution by David Patrick Geggus,Norman Fiering Pdf

These essays deepen our understanding of Haiti during the period from 1791 to 1815. They consider the colony's history and material culture as well as it 'free people of colour' and the events leading up to the revolution and its violent unfolding.

Author : Yasmine Shamsie,Andrew S. Thompson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554587841

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Haiti by Yasmine Shamsie,Andrew S. Thompson Pdf

“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 work done by the editors has established a high standard for future efforts.” (Terry Copp and John English from the Preface) Haiti is a country in the midst of a political, economic, ecological, and social crisis. Violence has sabotaged attempts to establish the rule of law, and state infrastructure is notably absent in much of the country, leading to an overall climate of insecurity. Haiti: Hope for a Fragile State sheds light on the varied and complex roots of the current crisis, dispels misperceptions, and suggests that the situation in Haiti, despite evidence to the contrary, is not completely desperate. It brings together diverse perspectives on development, the military, history, NGOs, and politics and discusses the peace-building efforts of the past, suggesting ways to move forward to make Haiti a strong state. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Author : Jean Casimir
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469660493

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The Haitians by Jean Casimir Pdf

In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the U.S. occupation in 1915. The Haitians also critically retheorizes the very nature of slavery, colonialism, and sovereignty. Here, Casimir centers the perspectives of Haiti's moun andeyo—the largely African-descended rural peasantry. Asking how these systematically marginalized and silenced people survived in the face of almost complete political disenfranchisement, Casimir identifies what he calls a counter-plantation system. Derived from Caribbean political and cultural practices, the counter-plantation encompassed consistent reliance on small-scale landholding. Casimir shows how lakou, small plots of land often inhabited by generations of the same family, were and continue to be sites of resistance even in the face of structural disadvantages originating in colonial times, some of which continue to be maintained by the Haitian government with support from outside powers.

Author : David P. Geggus
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643361130

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The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World by David P. Geggus Pdf

The effect of Saint Domingue's decolonization on the wider Atlantic world The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War, Haiti's fifteen-year struggle for racial equality, slave emancipation, and colonial independence challenged notions about racial hierarchy that were gaining legitimacy in an Atlantic world dominated by Europeans and the slave trade. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World explores the multifarious influence—from economic to ideological to psychological—that a revolt on a small Caribbean island had on the continents surrounding it. Fifteen international scholars, including eminent historians David Brion Davis, Seymour Drescher, and Robin Blackburn, explicate such diverse ramifications as the spawning of slave resistance and the stimulation of slavery's expansion, the opening of economic frontiers, and the formation of black and white diasporas. They show how the Haitian Revolution embittered contemporary debates about race and abolition and inspired poetry, plays, and novels. Seeking to disentangle its effects from those of the French Revolution, they demonstrate that its impact was ambiguous, complex, and contradictory.

Author : Karen Salt
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786949547

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The Unfinished Revolution by Karen Salt Pdf

In The Unfinished Revolution, Salt examines post-revolutionary (and contemporary) sovereignty in Haiti, noting the many international responses to the arrival of a nation born from blood, fire and revolution. Using blackness as a lens, Salt charts the impact of Haiti’s sovereignty—and its blackness—in the Atlantic world.

Author : Patrick E. Bryan
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0435983016

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The Haitian Revolution and Its Effects by Patrick E. Bryan Pdf

Author : Jeanine Agnant,Alexandra Barbot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Haiti
ISBN : 158432483X

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Tell Me about Haiti by Jeanine Agnant,Alexandra Barbot Pdf

Author : Martin Munro,Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X030113946

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Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks by Martin Munro,Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw Pdf

''Based on papers presented at a conference organized and held at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, June 2004 - Introduction.''

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Hourly History
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1540743934

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Haitian Revolution by Hourly History Pdf

Haitian RevolutionThe Haitian Revolution began in 1791 in the French colony of Saint Domingue, when a group of slaves rebelled in order to secure their freedom and the end of slavery. In the midst of the French Revolution, slaves took advantage of volatile political, racial, and social circumstances. Inside you will read about...- The French Colony of Saint Domingue - Race and Class in Saint Domingue: The Coming of Revolution - The French Revolution in Saint Domingue - The Haitian Revolution Breaks Out - The Haitian Revolution and the World - Napoleon - The Continuing Struggle for Freedom And much more! With legendary leaders like Toussaint Louverture, they eventually defeated Napoleon's France to form the independent nation of Haiti. The Haitian Revolution had both global causes and consequences. In the end, the entire world was impacted by the heroic actions of the most dispossessed people in the population.

Author : Jacques Nicolas Leger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436864518

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Haiti: Her History and Her Detractors (1907) by Jacques Nicolas Leger Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : PETER. ORNER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786633779

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LAVIL. by PETER. ORNER Pdf