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This book explains the causes of Haiti's underdevelopment caused by
the contradictory dynamic or dialectical interaction of external
and internal social relations and forces, including class, race,
and color relations and forces, and the conflicts they generate
among them since 1700. .
This book, a critical study of Haiti's place in the "New World
Order," examines the limits of its "democratic revolution". It
analyzes the emergence, composition, and objectives of the
democratic movement that challenged the military and led to the
electoral victory of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
This book seeks to explain the causes of Haiti's underdevelopment
since the end of the seventeenth century. During the 1960s and
1970s several original paradigms emerged to explain the causes and
persistence of underdevelopment in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In the renewed effort to understand the associated processes of
development and under
This book, a critical study of Haiti's place in the "New World
Order," examines the limits of its "democratic revolution" and the
prospects for social change. Exploring why the successive military
governments in power between 1986 and 1990 were unable to implement
the neoliberal economic reforms sanctioned by the World Bank and
USAID, Dupuy also an
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 the international
community have, in varying ways, exploited the country over the
last 200 years.
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 majority and their
demand for a more just, equal, and participatory democratic
society, the charismatic priest-turned-president was overthrown by
the military just seven months into his first term. Popular
resistance to the junta compelled the United States to lead a
multinational force to restore Aristide to power in 1994 to serve
out the remainder of his presidency until 1996. When he was
re-elected for a second and final term in 2000, Aristide had
undergone a dramatic transformation. Expelled from the priesthood
and no longer preaching liberation theology, his real objective was
to consolidate his and his Lavalas party's power and preserve the
predatory state structures he had vowed to dismantle just a decade
earlier. To maintain power, Aristide relied on armed gangs, the
police, and authoritarian practices. That strategy failed and his
foreign-backed foes overthrew and exiled him once again in 2004.
This time, however, the population did not rally in his defense.
Written by one of the world's leading scholars of Haiti, The
Prophet and Power explores the crisis of democratization in a poor,
underdeveloped, peripheral society with a long history of
dictatorial rule by a tiny ruling class opposed to changing the
status quo and dependent on international economic and political
support. Situating the country in its global context, Alex Dupuy
considers the structures and relations of power between Haiti and
the core capitalist countries and the forces struggling for and
against social change.
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 meaningful economic and political development. He
reconsiders the link between slavery and modern capitalism; refutes
the argument that Hegel derived his master-slave dialectic from the
Haitian Revolution; analyzes the consequences of new class and
color divisions after independence; and convincingly explains why
Haiti chose to pay an indemnity to France in return for its
recognition of Haiti's independence. In his sophisticated analysis
of race, class, and slavery, he provides a robust theoretical
framework for conceptualizing and understanding these major themes.
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 meaningful economic and political development. He
reconsiders the link between slavery and modern capitalism; refutes
the argument that Hegel derived his master-slave dialectic from the
Haitian Revolution; analyzes the consequences of new class and
color divisions after independence; and convincingly explains why
Haiti chose to pay an indemnity to France in return for its
recognition of Haiti's independence. In his sophisticated analysis
of race, class, and slavery, he provides a robust theoretical
framework for conceptualizing and understanding these major themes.
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 the international
community have, in varying ways, exploited the country over the
last 200 years.
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