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UNINA9910461984603321 |
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Titolo |
Haitian history : new perspectives / / edited by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-84682-9 |
1-135-76648-7 |
0-203-72381-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SepinwallAlyssa Goldstein <1970-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. |
Haiti History |
Haiti Historiography |
Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804 Historiography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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HAITIAN HISTORY New Perspectives; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Section I From Saint-Domingue to Haiti; 1 An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event; 2 Slave Resistance (from The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution From Below ); 3 Saint-Domingue on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution; 4 "I am the Subject of the King of Congo": African Political Ideology and the Haitian Revolution; Section II Independent Haiti in a Hostile World: Haiti in the Nineteenth Century; 5 The Politics of "French Negroes" in the United States |
6 Talk About Haiti: The Archive and the Atlantic's Haitian Revolution7 Sword-Bearing Citizens: Militarism and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Haiti; 8 Rural Protest and Peasant Revolt, 1804-1869; 9 "The Black Republic": The Infl uence of the Haitian Revolution on Northern Black Political Consciousness, 1816-1862; Section III From the Occupation to the Earthquake: Haiti in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries; 10 Under the Gun (from Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment ); 11 VIVE 1804! The Haitian Revolution and the Revolutionary Generation of 1946 |
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12 Dynastic Dictatorship: The Duvalier Years, 1957-198613 The Water Refugees (from AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame); 14 The Rise, Fall, and Second Coming of Jean-Bertrand Aristide; 15 Eternity Lasted Less Than Sixty Seconds . . .; Permissions Acknowledgments; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 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 |
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