Rutgers University Press, 2021. — 262 p. Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US scholarly examination of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US military occupation of Haiti. The occupation lasted close to two decades, from 1915-1934. Alexis argues for the importance of documenting resistance while...
Praeger, 1998. — 291 p. — ISBN: 0275962377, 9780275962371, 9780313048302. An inside account of the U.S. military operation to restore Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power in 1994, this study demonstrates progress made in joint warfighting in the period following the end of the Cold War, including improvements in command and control, joint force integration, and...
Cornell University Press, 2001. — 272 p. — ISBN: 080148748X, 9780801487484. Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a large role in changing the balance of political and social power, even as they have endured rampant and devastating state-sponsored violence, including torture, rape,...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0801452120, 9780801452123. Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti and elsewhere. Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake of January 12, 2010, that struck the island nation, killing more than a quarter-million people and leaving...
Vintage Books, 2010. — 352 p. 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—and only—successful slave revolt in history. Much of the success of the revolution must be...
Held, 1953. — 365 p. Longtemps appelée en Europe Saint-Domingue, Hispaniola ou Haïti ou encore Ayti (c'est-à-dire le pays montagneux en langue caraïbe) fut découverte par Christophe Colomb le 6 décembre 1492 et fut le siège du l'établissement européen en Amérique. Les Espagnols y fondèrent en 1495 Santo-Domingo, dont la prompte prospérité fit donner à toute l'île le même nom....
Canadian Scholars Press, 2004. — 321 p. — 2nd revised edition. — ISBN: 1551302683, 9781551302683, 9781417596836. The title of this worthwhile volume is a metaphor. Haiti is a breached citadel. As acts of nature, sun, rain, wind and seasons erode the citadel of Haiti, so too is the country of Haiti being eroded by internationalist sentiment, eating away at her culture and way of...
Ibis Rouge Éditions, 2016. — 308 p. — (Espace outre-mer). — ISBN: 978-2-37520-513-6. Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur propose l'étude de diverses périodes d'Haïti qui n'avaient pas encore attiré suffisamment la curiosité des historiens, telles que l'action du commissaire de la République, Etienne de Polverel, pour l'organisation de l'abolition de l'esclavage, les relations avec...
Ibis Rouge Éditions, 2016. — 308 p. — (Espace outre-mer). — ISBN: 978-2-37520-513-6. Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur propose l'étude de diverses périodes d'Haïti qui n'avaient pas encore attiré suffisamment la curiosité des historiens, telles que l'action du commissaire de la République, Etienne de Polverel, pour l'organisation de l'abolition de l'esclavage, les relations avec...
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. — 334 p. In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be the new republic's strategy toward a revolution roiling just off its shores? From 1790 to 1810, the disagreement...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. — 172 p. — (Pitt Illuminations). — ISBN: 082295978X, 9780822959786. In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward...
Brookings Institution Press, 2008. — 249 p. — ISBN: 0815713916, 9780815713913. Even after years of receiving considerable foreign aid, Haiti remains an impoverished, tremendously fragile state. Over a span of ten years, the United States spent over $4 billion in aid to Haiti, yet the average Haitian still has to survive on one dollar a day. Why has assistance been so...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 452 p. 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,...
Sin lugar: Colección Socialismo y Libertad, sin año. — 237 p. Un estudio sobre la Revolución haitiana. Escrito por Aimé Césaire (1913 - 2008), poeta y pensador francés, uno de los fundadores del movimiento de la Negritude.
University Of Chicago Press, 2017. — 264 p. — ISBN: 022607935X, 9780226079356. In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth...
Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2004. — 180 p. — ISBN: 1567513182, 1567513190. 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 to overstay? After 35 coups, what does the...
New York, NY: World View Forum, 2010. — 274 p. — ISBN: 0974752142, 9780974752143. Drawing from a wide range of authors, experts, and historical texts, this collection challenges historical stereotypes and counters 200 years of cultural myths and disinformation. These essays explain the background to the current crisis in Haiti, revealing the intertwined relationship between the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 241 p. — ISBN: 9780812201611. At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almost...
Greenwood, 2007. — 201 p. — (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations). — ISBN: 0313340897, 9780313340895. Haiti's long and turbulent history is documented in this comprehensive reference volume, ideal for high school students, undergrads, and general readers. Discovered by Christopher Columbus on his journey across the Atlantic in 1492, Haiti has had a tumultuous past at...
Vanderbilt University Press, 2011. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0826517838, 9780826517838. When a devastating earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010, the world reacted with a collective, yet distant, horror. For Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Mark Curnutte, hearing the news provoked a far more visceral response. Curnutte had grown to love Haiti and its people as...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — 1673 p. — ISBN 978 059 33 16177 King Henry spelled his name with a y. However, many Christophe chroniclers, both in Haiti and abroad, especially those who wrote in the twentieth century, use the more common French spelling “Henri.” This biography uses the correct historical spelling of “Henry” when referring to the Haitian king, except for when directly...
Routledge, 2022. — 418 p. This book, first published in 1929, examines the history of Haiti and its long struggle for independence. The revolution against the French is treated in some detail, as is the story of the free Haitian republic that followed. Building a new country from slavery was no easy task, and another revolutionary period followed in the early twentieth century,...
Simon & Schuster, 1985. – 297 p. – ISBN10: 0671502476, ISBN13: 978-0671502478 A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis and Magic. A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist. In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate...
NY: Touchstone, 1997. — 304 p. A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo, Zombies and Magic. A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombies and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist. In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombies – people who...
University Press of Florida, 2007. — 272 p. — (Southern Dissent). — ISBN: 0813030374, 9780813030371. Dessens examines the legacy of approximately 15,000 Saint-Domingue refugees--whites, slaves, and free people of color--who settled in Louisiana between 1791 and 1815. Forced to flee their French Caribbean colony following a slave rebellion that gave birth to the Haitian Republic...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 432 p. When Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haitian independence on January 1, 1804, Haiti became the second independent republic, after the United States, in the Americas; the Haitian Revolution was the first successful antislavery and anticolonial revolution in the western hemisphere. The histories of Haiti and the early United...
De Gruyter, 2013. — 192 p. — (Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century. Vol. 10). — ISBN: 3598357117, 9783598357114. In the wake of the American and French revolutions at the end of the 18th century, the first modern constitutional documents adopted in the Americas outside of the US were penned in Haiti. This newly revised edition...
Harvard University Press, 2004. — 357 p. — ISBN: 0674013042, 9780674013049, 0674018265, 9780674018266. The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave...
New York: Picador, 2013. — 448 p. — ISBN-10: 9781250002365; ISBN-13: 978-1250002365. Even before the devastating 2010 earthquake, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption, blamed by many for its own wretchedness. But as acclaimed historian Laurent Dubois demonstrates, Haiti's troubled present can only be understood by examining its complex past. The...
Metropolitan Books, 2012. — 434 p. Links Haiti's current state to its turbulent history, documenting how the 1804 slave rebellion placed Haiti at odds with the rest of the world, which initiated a crushing cycle of debt and left the Haitian people struggling for true democracy. Even before the devastating 2010 earthquake, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 352 p. — (Early American Studies). — ISBN: 0812248317, 9780812248319. Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation's domestic politics. Focusing on Philadelphia as both a representative and an influential vantage point, it follows contemporary...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. — 258 p. — (Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series). — ISBN: 0742538303, 9780742538306. This compelling book offers a comprehensive analysis of the struggle for democracy in Haiti, set in the context of the tumultuous rise and fall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Swept to power in 1991 as the champion of Haiti's impoverished...
Routledge, 2014. — 172 p. This title focuses on Haiti from an international perspective. Haiti has endured undue influence from successive French and US governments; its fragile democracy has been founded on subordination to and dominance of foreign powers. This book examines Haiti’s position within the global economic and political order, and how the more dominant members of...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 181 p. In this important book, leading scholar Alex Dupuy provides a critical reinterpretation of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Dupuy evaluates the French colonial context of Saint-Domingue and then Haiti, the achievements and limitations of the revolution, and the divisions in the Haitian ruling class that blocked...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 181 p. In this important book, leading scholar Alex Dupuy provides a critical reinterpretation of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Dupuy evaluates the French colonial context of Saint-Domingue and then Haiti, the achievements and limitations of the revolution, and the divisions in the Haitian ruling class that blocked...
Port-au-Prince, 2001. — 64 p. — Réédition (1962). Table des matières. Loi No. 1. De la Section Rurale. Loi No. 2. De l’organisation de la Section Rurale. Loi No. 3. De la constatation et de la preuve des faits d'état civil intéressant les paysans. Loi No. 4. Des biens ruraux. Loi No. 5. De la Culture, de l'Exploitation et de la protection du Sol. Loi No. 6. Sur l'Élevage. Loi...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 379 p. The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious...
NYU Press, 2015. — 192 p. — (Early American Places). — ISBN: 0814764932, 9780814764930. Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti’s leaders realized that if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong diplomatic bonds with other nations. Haiti’s first leaders looked especially hard at the United States, which had a sizeable free black population that...
PublicAffairs, 2011. — 456 p. — ISBN: 1586489747, 9781586489748. On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured.In this vivid narrative, Farmer describes the incredible...
PublicAffairs, 2011. — 456 p. — ISBN: 1586489747, 9781586489748. On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured.In this vivid narrative, Farmer describes the incredible...
Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994. — 432 p. — ISBN: 1567510345, 1567510353. 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 its bitter fate.—Noam Chomsky, from the...
Rutgers University Press, 2021. — 245 p. The Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always...
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. — 376 p. — ISBN-10: 0870496670; ISBN-13: 978-0870496677. In 1789 the French colony of Saint Domingue was the wealthiest and most flourishing of the Caribbean slave colonies, its economy based on the forced labor of more than half a million black slaves raided from their African homelands. The revolt of this underclass in 1791—the...
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. — 376 p. — ISBN10: 0870496670; ISBN13: 978-0870496677. In 1789 the French colony of Saint Domingue was the wealthiest and most flourishing of the Caribbean slave colonies, its economy based on the forced labor of more than half a million black slaves raided from their African homelands. The revolt of this underclass in 1791—the...
2nd edition. — Duke University Press, 2005. — 384 p. — ISBN: 0822332906, 9780822332909. Modernity Disavowedis 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...
Joseph Henry Press, 2006. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0309097363, 9780309097369, 9780309659826. This memoir of a dedicated doctor battling the AIDS epidemic in Haiti does more than chronicle the story of a horrible disease. It is a moving tribute to the abundant courage, resilience, and dignity of a people beset by tragedy.The Zombie Curse A Doctor’s 25-Year Journey into the Heart of the...
University of Virginia Press, 2015. — 297 p. Taken together, these essays offer a clearer and more thorough understanding of the intricacies and complexities of the world's second declaration of independence to create a lasting Haitian nation-state.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 270 p. — ISBN: 9781469625638. On January 1, 1804, Haiti shocked the world by declaring independence. Historians have long portrayed Haiti's postrevolutionary period as one during which the international community rejected Haiti's Declaration of Independence and adopted a policy of isolation designed to contain the...
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 408 p. — (The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World). — ISBN: 1403971404, 9781403971401, 9781403984432. In 1804 French Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti after the only successful slave uprising in world history. When the Haitian Revolution broke out, the colony was home to the largest and wealthiest free...
University of South Carolina Press, 2002. — 261 p. — (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World). — ISBN: 1570034168, 9781570034169. 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...
Indiana University Press, 2009. — 440 p. In January 1804, the once wealthy colony of Saint-Domingue declared its independence from France and adopted the Amerindian name "Haiti." Independence was the outcome of the extraordinary uprising of the colony's slaves. Although a central event in the history of the French in the New World, the full significance of the revolution has...
Indiana University Press, 2002. — 352 p. — (Blacks in the Diaspora). — ISBN: 0253341043, 9780253341044. The Haitian Revolution of 1789–1803 transformed the Caribbean’s wealthiest colony into the first independent state in Latin America, encompassed the largest slave uprising in the Americas, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on three colonial powers. In Haitian Revolutionary...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2014. — 262 p. A landmark collection of documents by the field's leading scholar. This reader includes beautifully written introductions and a fascinating array of never-before-published primary documents. These treasures from the archives offer a new picture of colonial Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution. The translations are lively and...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 350 p. The Haitian Revolution (1789–1804) was an epochal event that galvanized slaves and terrified planters throughout the Atlantic world. Rather than view this tumultuous period solely as a radical rupture with slavery, Malick W. Ghachem’s innovative study shows that emancipation in Haiti was also a long-term product of its colonial legal...
Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2011. 456 p. ISBN: 0817317325, 9780817317324. Haiti lost most of its archives to neglect and theft, but a substantial number of documents survive in French, U.S., British, and Spanish collections, both public and private. In all, this book relies on contemporary military, commercial, and administrative sources drawn from nineteen...
Palgrave Macmillan US, 2004. — XI, 245 p. — ISBN: 1403967164, 9781403967169, 9781403979315. The book focuses on Aristide's political career, emphasizing his strategizing, compromising and dealing with the Clinton administration. In his presentation of the conflict, Girard carefully balances Aristide's and Clinton's needs, and the demands and moral positions the leaders make...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 240 p. — ISBN: 9781403968876, 140396887X. Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why has the United States felt a need to repeatedly intervene in Haiti's affairs? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions in Paradise Lost . He examines how...
New York University Press, 2016. — 284 p. — (America and the long 19th century). — ISBN: 9781479814855, 1479814857. As the first successful revolution emanating from a slave rebellion, the Haitian Revolution remains an inspired site of investigation for a remarkable range of artists and activist-intellectuals in the African Diaspora. In The Black Radical Tragic, Jeremy Matthew...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 302 p. Johnhenry Gonzalez’s fascinating book, Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti, offers something of an antidote to current trends in historiography of the Haitian Revolution that either celebrate the Revolution and its achievements as a testament to the universality of human freedom, racial equality, and human rights, or focus on...
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993. — Pp. vii, 312. — ISBN: 0870133276, 978-0870133275. Paradoxically Haiti's history is richer than the country itself. Not much is scientificaly known about its religious history, aside from myths created by Hollywood through the distortion of what Voodoo really is. But this poor country is more than this African religion. And...
Chelsea House Publications, 2011. — 118 p. — (Modern World Nations). — ISBN: 1604139404, 9781604139402, 9781438137261. Tropical islands evoke images of sun, surf, and sand, palms swaying gently in the breeze, and happy, carefree people. Some of these stereotypical images hold true for Haiti, a country that shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic....
Routledge, 2011. — 257 p. Failed states are a huge problem in international relations, threatening world order in a number of ways. Conflicts in failed states often spill unto neighbouring states, failed states make for unreliable partners in the resolution of global social problems such as poverty and AIDS, and failed states magnify the effects of natural disasters such as...
Polity, 2019. — 256 p. It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The exploitation of slave labor led to a form of proto-globalization in which violence was indispensable to the production of wealth. Against the background of this expanding circulation of capital...
Secretariat, Organization of American States, 1970. — 48 p. — (The American Republics Series). The American Republics Series incorporates the basic information on each of the 21 member states of the Organization of the American States.
Hourly History, 2016. — 53 p. — (Hourly History). — ISBN: 2510734790. The 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.
Hourly History, 2016. — 53 p. — (Hourly History). — ISBN: 2510734790. The 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.
Hourly History, 2016. — 53 p. — (Hourly History). — ISBN: 2510734790. The 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.
Scarecrow Press, 2012. — 329 p. One of the world’s poorest nations, Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Haiti proclaimed its independence from France on January 1, 1804 following the only successful slave revolt in the Americas. As a result of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), Haiti became the first independent Latin American nation and the...
Verso, 2010. — 512 p. — ISBN: 1844674665, 9781844674664. Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas (“the flood”) sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backed dictatorial rule. Damming the Flood...
Vervuert, 2008. — 288 p. La longue histoire d Haïti, le premier pays independant du dit Tiers Monde, fait souvent oublier le rôle qu il a joue dans l histoire contemporaine et les multiples liens qui le nouent à la modernite occidentale et à l histoire des peuples opprimes. Aussi le propos du present volume n est-il pas seulement de discuter d un sujet precis, la Revolution...
Routledge, 2009. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0415803756, 9780415803755. Bringing together scholarly essays and helpfully annotated primary documents, African Americans and the Haitian Revolution collects not only the best recent scholarship on the subject, but also showcases the primary texts written by African Americans about the Haitian Revolution. Rather than being about the revolution...
New York: Vintage books, 1989. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0679724672, 978-0679724674. 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 model for the Third World liberation movements from...
New York: Vintage books, 1989. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0679724672; ISBN13: 978-0679724674 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 model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a...
Liverpool University Press, 2011. — 322 p. The Haitian Revolution has generated responses from commentators in fields ranging from philosophy to historiography to twentieth-century literary and artistic studies. But what about the written work produced at the time, by Haitians? This book is the first to present an account of a specifically Haitian literary tradition in the...
Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 256 p. — (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies). — ISBN: 3319761439, 9783319761435. This book examines the ways in which a minority of primarily white, male, French philanthropists used their social standing and talents to improve the lives of peoples of African descent in Saint-Domingue during the crucial period of the Haitian...
Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 256 p. — (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies). — ISBN: 3319761439, 9783319761435. This book examines the ways in which a minority of primarily white, male, French philanthropists used their social standing and talents to improve the lives of peoples of African descent in Saint-Domingue during the crucial period of the Haitian...
University of Georgia Press, 2014. — 264 p. From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for people of color in Saint-Domingue. The United States supported the Dominican revolutionaries with economic assistance and arms and munitions;...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 320 p. Islanders and Empire examines the role smuggling played in the cultural, economic, and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. With a rare focus on local peoples and communities, the book analyzes how residents of Hispaniola actively negotiated and transformed the meaning and reach...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 373 p.— ISBN: 022658741X, 9780226587417. In Islands of Sovereignty , anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new interpretation of the transformation of US borders during the late twentieth century and its implications for our understanding of the nation-state as a legal and political form. Kahn takes us on a voyage into...
University of Virginia Press, 2014. — 257 p. The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) reshaped the debates about slavery and freedom throughout the Atlantic world, accelerated the abolitionist movement, precipitated rebellions in neighboring territories, and intensified both repression and antislavery sentiment. The story of the birth of the world’s first independent black republic...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 320 p. On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle one. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral first-hand account, Katz takes...
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. — 328 p. — ISBN: 9780820322339, 0820322334. By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black. The French Caribbean colony offered a high degree of social, economic, and physical mobility to free people of color. Covering the period 1776-1791, this study offers the most comprehensive portrait to date of Saint...
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012. — 75 p. — ISBN: 978-1-55152-499-3, 1551524996. A moving eyewitness account of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and its aftermath by the acclaimed Haitian Canadian writer.
Macmillan, 1993. — 232 p. A structural and hermeneutic analysis of civil-military relations in Haiti. The equilibrium theory of civil-military relations developed here postulates that the stability of a political system capable of preventing military intervention is the result of three sets of balanced relationships.
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1989. — 161 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-19922-8, 978-1-349-19920-4. Religion and Politics. The Evolution of Colonial Voodoo. Marronage and Voodoo. Revolutionary Voodoo Leaders. Secret Societies. Pilgrimage, Voodoo and Politics. Politics and Voodoo During the Duvalier Era. Public Policies and National Prospects.
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. — 255 p. This book tells the story of the Battle of Vertières, fought in 1803 between indigenous Haitian forces under the leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines and a French expeditionary army commanded by Napoleon. The battle marked the culmination of a thirteen-year revolutionary struggle to end slavery and the dawn of an independent...
Les Éditions Fardin, 1965. — 109 p. Лоример Дени, Дювалье Франсуа. Классовый вопрос и история Гаити (на франц. яз.) Table des matières: Le Problème des Classes d'Ogé et Chavannes à la Guerre du Sud. Le Problème des Classes de 1804 à Antoine Simon. Les Protagonistes de la question des Classes. Grandeurs et misères d'une Classe. La Mission des Élites. Psycho-Sociologie —...
Chicoutimi, Québec: Les Classiques des sciences sociales, 2000. — 89 p. Лоример Дени, Дювалье Франсуа. Проблема классов в истории Гаити (на франц. яз.) Le Problème des Classes d’Ogé et Chavannes à la Guerre du Sud. Le Problème des Classes de 1804 à Antoine Simon. L’Action des Hommes d’État. Les Protagonistes de la question de Classes. L’Action des Intellectuels....
Éditions Henri Deschamps, 1803. — 560 p. Forcément "événementielle", puisque nul historien avant lui n'avait encore "pénétré dans l'infini détail" des méandres de notre passé, l'HISTOIRE D'HAÏTI de Thomas Madiou est cependant loin de constituer un simple recueil d'anecdotes historiques ou de relations de batailles. Si l'auteur s'étend sur les faits, il n'en dégage pas moins les...
Éditions Henri Deschamps, 1811. — 414 p. L'œuvre de Thomas Madiou est immense. On n'en connaissait jusqu'ici que la moitié. Trois volumes importants de son Histoire d'Haïti représentant les tomes I, II et III ont été publiés par l'auteur en 1847 et 1848. À l'occasion du centenaire de l'Indépendance, en 1904, la famille a fait paraître un volume relatant les événements de 1843 à...
Éditions Henri Deschamps, 1818. — 533 p. L'œuvre de Thomas Madiou est immense. On n'en connaissait jusqu'ici que la moitié. Trois volumes importants de son Histoire d'Haïti, représentant les tomes I, II et III, ont été publiés par l'auteur en 1847 et 1848. À l'occasion du centenaire de l'Indépendance en 1904, la famille a fait paraître un volume relatant les événements de 1843...
Éditions Henri Deschamps, 1826. — 548 p. Ce sixième tome, troisième des quatre tomes inédits de l'Histoire d'Haïti de Thomas Madiou, couvre la période qui va de 1819 à 1826, époque décisive pour l'histoire nationale, car elle voit l'unification de l'île d'Haïti qui pendant vingt-et-un ans restera soumise à l'autorité d'un gouvernement central, celui de Port-au-Prince....
Éditions Henri Deschamps, 1843. — 538 p. Après s'être attaché à dépeindre les multiples aspects de l'administration de Boyer dans les premières années de son gouvernement, Thomas Madiou, dans le présent volume qui va de 1827 à 1843 et constitue le quatrième des quatre tomes inédits de son HISTOIRE D'HAÏTI, poursuit son attrayante et minutieuse étude d'un gouvernement...
Éditions Henri Deschamps, 1846. — 465 p. Quel historien ou amateur de choses historiques n'adhérerait pas à ces propos pertinents des professeurs Georges Livet et Roland Mousnier, animateurs de l'Histoire Générale de l'Europe ?: "L'histoire n'est pas une œuvre d'antiquaires. L'histoire prend l'homme à ses origines, le suit dans ses destinées, débouche sur le présent qu'elle...
University Of Chicago Press, 2010. — 416 p. — ISBN: 0226514676, 9780226514673. How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the world’s richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active society of science—one of only three in the world,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1403971617, 9781403971616, 9780312376208. This book introduces readers to the practice of Vodou and helps deconstruct and destroy stereotypes which have survived for hundreds of years. The authors in the collection – from Karen McCarthy Brown to Gerdes Fleurant to Leslie Desmangles – are leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of...
Routledge, 2016. — 218 p. — (Cass Series on Peacekeeping). — ISBN: 0415480868, 9780415480864. This book assesses the UN Peace Operations in Haiti and establishes what lessons should be taken into account for future operations elsewhere. Specifically, the book examines the UN’s approaches to security and stability, demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR), police,...
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2006. — xvi, 184 p. — ISBN: 976640190X, 9789766401900, 9781435630956. 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. Introduction. Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw. Open Letter to the Haitians Of...
University of Virginia Press, 2015. — 240 p. — (New World Studies). In Tropical Apocalypse , Martin Munro argues that since the earliest days of European colonization, Caribbean—and especially Haitian—history has been shaped by apocalyptic events so that the region has, in effect, been living for centuries in an end time without end. By engaging with the contemporary...
Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2008. — 268 p. — (New World Studies). — ISBN: 0813928028, 9780813928029. Unlike the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Going well beyond the selective emancipation of white adult male property owners, the...
University North Carolina Press, 2016. — 288 p. Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that became Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the Spanish colony that became the Dominican Republic. Tracing conflicts over the terms and boundaries of...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1985. — 287 p. — (St Antony’s Series). — ISBN: 978-1-349-17788-2, 978-1-349-17786-8. Caste, Class and Colour in Haiti. The Wisdom of Salomon: Myth or Reality? Biology and the Politics of François Duvalier. East Indians and Black Power in Trinidad. Economic Dependence and Political Autonomy, 1804–1915. Holding the Purse-Strings: Women in Haiti. Economic...
University Press of Florida, 2015. — 222 p. In 1915, United States Marines arrived in Haiti to safeguard lives and property from the political instability of the time. While there, the Marine Corps controlled everything from finance to education, from health care to public works and built an army, “La Garde d’Haiti,” to maintain the changes it implemented. Ultimately, the...
Louisiana State University Press, 1988. — 277 p. Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915 examines a critical period of Haitian history and diplomacy. In this widely researched and persuasively argued study, Brenda Gayle Plummer contends that the social, economic, and political decline of Haiti during the early part of the century was hastened by many factors: the growing...
University of Georgia Press, 1992. — 324 p. In a prescient remark made at the turn of the century, U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root said that establishing "the right sort of relations" with Haiti must await "the psychological moment." Indeed, as Brenda Gayle Plummer notes, much of the Haitian-U.S. relationship has turned on matters of perception. For many in the United...
Pluto Press, 2012. — 224 p. In 1804 Haiti became the world's first independent black Republic following a slave revolution. 200 years later, ravaged by colonialism and violence, it was placed under UN military occupation.Haiti's New Dictatorship charts the country's recent history, from the 2004 coup against President Aristide to the devastating 2010 earthquake, revealing a...
Pluto Press, 2012. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0745332579, 9780745332574. In 1804 Haiti became the world's first independent black Republic following a slave revolution. 200 years later, ravaged by colonialism and violence, it was placed under UN military occupation.Haiti's New Dictatorship charts the country's recent history, from the 2004 coup against President Aristide to the...
Écosociété, 2016. — 248 p. En 1804, Haïti est devenue la première république noire indépendante au monde issue d’une révolution d’esclaves. Deux cents ans plus tard, miné par le colonialisme et la violence, le pays a été placé sous occupation militaire onusienne dans ce qui prend la forme d’une toute nouvelle dictature: celle de la communauté internationale. La nouvelle...
University Press of Florida, 2010. — 288 p. — (New World Diasporas). — ISBN: 0813034728, 9780813034720. Haiti has long been both a source of immense pride - because of the Haitian Revolution - and of profound disappointment - because of the unshakable realities of poverty, political instability, and violence - to the black diasporic imagination. Charting the long history of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 212 p. — ISBN: 1405198206, 9781405198202. This book offers students a concise and clearly written overview of the events of the Haitian Revolution, from the slave uprising in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 to the declaration of Haiti’s independence in 1804. Draws on the latest scholarship in the field as well as the author’s original...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. — 416 p. — ISBN: 0226675823, 9780226675824, 0226675831, 9780226675831. 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 of mixed...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. — 440 p. — ISBN: 0807826286, 9780807826287, 9780807862186. The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years – and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. contact with Haiti during the occupation and...
Brookings Inst Pr, 1997. 268 p. ISBN: 0815775865, 9780815775867, 9780585347301. The election of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1990, his American-supported restoration to office in 1994, and the peaceful election in 1995 of President Rene Preval were harbingers of a radically new and promising era in Haitian political and economic life. With a five-year presidency, Preval...
Liverpool University Press, 2019. — 272 p. — (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery). — ISBN: 9781786949547, 9781786941619. The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World addresses post-revolutionary (and contemporary) sovereignty in Haiti. Working through an archive of black politics, The Unfinished Revolution...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. — 199 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-24966-4, 978-1-349-24964-0. The American Occupation of Haiti. The Development of Jean Price-Mars’ Position Regarding the Problems of Haiti, 1876–1915. Price-Mars’ Attempts to Organize the Haitians During the Early Years of the American Occupation, 1916–18. The Development of Price-Mars’ Political, Educational, and...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 296 p. ISBN: 0807832650, 9780807832653, 9780807894156. In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of postoccupation...
Monthly Review Press, U.S., 2012. — 401 p. — ISBN: 1583673016, 9781583673010. In this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti's first democratically elected president,...
Dominican Studies Institute, 2019. — 80 p. Makes available the first ever English translation of the pioneering 1522 ordinances on Black peoples of La Española. The translation of the laws into English offers non-Spanish literate scholars and students direct access to the contents of these early colonial slavery laws, opening the door to further analyses from a diverse range of...
NYU Press, 2020. — 352 p. Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of swords and of pens, waged in newspapers and periodicals, in literature, broadsheets, and fliers. In her analysis of Haitian writing that...
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. — 410 p. Introduction and early history. Natural features, population, and government. The whites. The mulattoes and the color line. The slaves. The eve of the revolution in San Domingo. The first stage of the colonial struggle in France. The first troubles in San Domingo. The assembly of saint-marc. The decree of may. The...
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. — 410 p. Introduction and early history Natural features, population, and government The whites The mulattoes and the color line The slaves The eve of the revolution in San Domingo The first stage of the colonial struggle in France The first troubles in San Domingo The assembly of saint-marc The decree of may The mulatto...
Praeger, 2014. — 276 p. This book traces the development of Haiti's combined Vodou-Christian religion from 1500 to the present and explains how this combination of distinct faiths coalesces in a coherent belief system. What are the historical reasons for the popularity of two contradictory worldviews in Haiti, Vodou and Catholicism? What elements of Vodou and Catholicism are...
Monthly Review Press, 1990. — 282 p. — ISBN: 0853457557, 9780853457558. In the euphoria that followed the departure of Haiti's hated dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, most Haitian and foreign analysts treated the regimes of the two Duvaliers, father and son, as a historical nightmare created by the malevolent minds of the leaders and their supporters. Yet the crisis, economic and...
University Press of Florida, 2010. — 208 p. — (New World Diasporas). — ISBN: 0813034612, 9780813034614. During the past ten years, political debates, legal disputes, and rising violence associated with the presence of Haitian migrants have flared up throughout the Caribbean basin in such places as Guadeloupe, the Dominican Republic, French Guiana, the Bahamas, and Jamaica. The...
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1964. — 501 s. Na przełomie XVIII i XIX w. haitańscy Murzyni przerwali jedno ogniwo w łańcuchu niewolnictwa w Ameryce. Później właściciele niewolników: Francuzi, Anglicy, Holendrzy, Hiszpanie mogli łatwo stwierdzić, że to oni, gdy czas po temu dojrzał, zerwali cały łańcuch. Rozpoczął swą dziejową drogę mit nieprzygotowania Murzynów zrazu do...
М.: Наука, 1974. — 162 с. В книге повествуется о трагической судьбе республики, которая первой в Латинской Америке завоевала независимость, но так и не смогла воспользоваться ее плодами. На обширном фактическом материале показана роль США, по сей день контролирующих политическую и экономическую жизнь страны. В работе вскрыты корни явления, называемого "дювальизмом" (по имени...
Монография. — М.: Институт этнологии и антропологии РАН, 1993. — 172 с. — ISBN: 5-201-00949-2. Предлагаемая книга является первым отечественным этноисторическим исследованием Гаити. Эта республика в нашей науке вообще мало изучена, фигурируя в основном в прессе и публицистической литературе как одна из беднейших и самых отсталых стран в мире.
Монография. — М.: Институт этнологии и антропологии РАН, 1993. — 172 с. — ISBN 5-201-00949-2. Предлагаемая книга является первым отечественным этноисторическим исследованием Гаити. Эта республика в нашей науке вообще мало изучена, фигурируя в основном в прессе и публицистической литературе как одна из беднейших и самых отсталых стран в мире.
М.: Наука, 1981. — 176 с. В конце июля 1915 г. морская пехота США высадилась в Гаити. Вскоре эта небольшая республика в Вест-Индии, первой в Латинской Америке завоевавшая независимость, была оккупирована американскими войсками и в последующие два десятилетия фактически являлась колонией США. О том, как все это происходило, ярко и увлекательно рассказывается в предлагаемой...
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