![]() ![]() ![]() Smart, honest, and utterly compelling, this book is the national biography this country and its people deserve.” - Boston Globe “A sweeping, passionate history of Haiti. ![]() “Well-written, authoritative history… enriched by careful attention to what Haitian intellectuals have had to say about their country over the last two centuries.” - The New York Times Book Review Revealing what lies behind the familiar moniker "the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere," this indispensable book illuminates the foundations on which a new Haiti might yet emerge.Ī New York Times Notable Book of the Year The country's difficulties are inextricably rooted in its founding revolution-the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world the hostility that this rebellion generated among the surrounding colonial powers and the intense struggle within Haiti itself to define its newfound freedom and realize its promise. But as acclaimed historian Laurent Dubois demonstrates, Haiti's troubled present can only be understood by examining its complex past. A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic historyĮven before the devastating 2010 earthquake, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption, blamed by many for its own wretchedness. ![]()
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