Haitian History (eBook, ePUB)

New Perspectives
Redaktion: Sepinwall, Alyssa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 lively debates and different schools of thought. Even as this body of knowledge has developed, it has been hard for students to grasp its various strands. Haitian History presents the best of the recent articles on Haitian history, by both Haitian and foreign scholars, moving from colonial Saint Domingue to the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. It will be the go-to one-volume introduction to the field of Haitian history, helping to explain how the promise of the Haitian Revolution dissipated, and presenting the major debates and questions in the field today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135766559
• Artikelnr.: 38450894

Autorenporträt

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall is Professor of History at California State University-San Marcos.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I: From Saint-Domingue to Haiti
Introduction
1. An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event,
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
2. Slave Resistance (from The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue
Revolution from Below), Carolyn E. Fick
3. Saint-Domingue on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution, David P. Geggus
4. "I am the Subject of the King of Congo": African Political Ideology and
the Haitian Revolution, John K. Thornton
Section II: Independent Haiti in a Hostile World: Haiti in the Nineteenth
Century
Introduction
5. The Politics of "French Negroes" in the United States, Ashli White
6. Talk About Haiti: The Archive and the Atlantic's Haitian Revolution, Ada
Ferrer
7. Sword-Bearing Citizens: Militarism and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century
Haiti, Mimi Sheller
8. Rural Protest and Peasant Revolt, 1804 - 1869, David Nicholls
9. "The Black Republic": The Influence of the Haitian Revolution on
Northern Black Political Consciousness, 1816 - 1862, Leslie M. Alexander
Section III: From the Occupation to the Earthquake: Haiti in the Twentieth
and Twenty-First Centuries
Introduction
10. Under the Gun (from Haiti and the United States: The Psychological
Moment), Brenda Gayle Plummer
11. VIVE 1804! The Haitian Revolution and the Revolutionary Generation of
1946, Matthew J. Smith
12. Dynastic Dictatorship: The Duvalier Years, 1957 - 1986, Patrick
Bellegarde-Smith
13. The Water Refugees (from AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography
of Blame), Paul Farmer
14. The Rise, Fall, and Second Coming of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Robert
Fatton, Jr.
15. Eternity Lasted Less Than Sixty Seconds..., Évelyne Trouillot
Index