Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 467 pages)
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1 map
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350220584
Content:
Prologue : storm clouds -- Istwa (history) -- Le blancs débarquent -- Operation Baghdad -- Deceptions and delusions -- The return -- Give us peace or rest in peace -- Uneasy neighbors -- Lavi Chè -- Plots and revelations -- Douze janvier -- The republic of NGOs -- Plague -- Tèt kale -- In the kingdom of impunity -- Open for business -- A disaster foretold -- When they are president, they will understand me -- Epilogue.
Content:
"The world's first independent black republic, Haiti was forged in the fire of history's only successful slave revolution. Yet more than two hundred years later, the full promise of the revolution--a free country and a free people--remains unfulfilled. Home for more than a decade to one of the world's largest UN peacekeeping forces, Haiti's tumultuous political culture--buffeted by coups and armed political partisans--combined with economic inequality and environmental degradation to create immense difficulties even before devastating 2010 earthquake killed tens of thousands of people. This grim tale, however, is not the whole story. In this moving and detailed history, Michael Deibert, who has spent two decades reporting on Haiti, chronicles the heroic struggles of Haitians to build their longed-for country in the face of overwhelming odds. Based on hundreds of interviews with Haitian political leaders, international diplomats, peasant advocates and gang leaders, as well as ordinary Haitians, Deibert's book provides a vivid, complex and challenging analysis of Haiti's recent history."--Page 4 of cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-444) and index
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783607990
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ISBN 9781783608638
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ISBN 9781783607983
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ISBN 1783608633
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783608638
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781783608638
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350220584
