Haiti: The Aftershocks of History, Paperback - Laurent DuBois

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Laurent DuBoisA New York Times Notable Book of the Year Even before the devastating 2010 earthquake, Haiti was known as a b...

While Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European ...

Contributor(s): Author: Laurent DuBoisThe first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally explo...

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Reducere. Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in ...

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Reducere. Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe ...

Based on the Harvard thesis of DuBois-one of the great black intellectuals of American history-and incorporating analyses of national, state, and c...

DescriptionA new history of post-Revolutionary Haiti, and the society that emerged in the aftermath of the world's most successful slave revolution...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Marshall SahlinsNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 1987Dimensions: 217 x 140 x 18Cover type...

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With no rugby over the summer, sports-mad Eoin Madden and his friends head to Ormondstown GAA club to get involved in hurling and football. Some lo...

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Publisher: The Library of AmericaAuthor(s): Henry Louis GatesNumber of pages: 1000Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 132 x 209 x 37Cover type: Hardb...