Alex Dupuy - Haiti: From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens. Essays on the Politics and Economics of Underdevelopment, 1804-2013

Haiti: From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens

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 Haitis 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.

Alex Dupuy is John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, USA.

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Haiti: From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens

Essays on the politics and economics of underdevelopment, 18042013 Alex Dupuy

Haiti: From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens

Essays on the politics and economics of underdevelopment, 18042013

Alex Dupuy

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Summary: 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 Haitis 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 Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. HaitiPolitics and government. 2. HaitiForeign relations. 3. HaitiEconomic conditions. 4. Economic developmentHaiti. 5. DemocracyHaitiHistory. 6. Failed statesHaiti. I. Title.

F1921.D87 2014

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2013040547

ISBN: 978-1-85743-710-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-31585-654-4 (ebk)

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by Taylor & Francis Books

Editor, South America, Central America and the Caribbean: Jackie West

Editorial Assistants: Amy Welmers, Lydia de Cruz

Contents

First and foremost I want to express my most profound gratitute and indebtedness to Franck Laraque for his mentorship and all he has taught me over the past forty some years. No one has inspired me more than he to never give up hope and the belief that a more just and egalitarian future is possible. I am immensely grateful to Leslie Demangles for his careful reading of all the essays in this book and for his most helpful editorial comments and suggestions. I would also like to thank Robert Fatton for his comments on . I also want to thank my friends and colleagues Robert Fatton, Leslie Desmangles, Robert Maguire, Carolle Charles, Franois Pierre-Louis, Henry Chip Carey, Linden Lewis, Hilbourne Watson, Anton Allahar, and Brian Meeks. The stimulating discussions we have had and the many panels we have shared at the annual meetings of the Haitian Studies Association and/or the Caribbean Studies Association have influenced my thinking on the issues I deal with in this book.

Last but not least, I want to thank the editorial and production staff at Routledge especially Jackie West, Editor, South America, Central America and the Caribbean, Europa Country Perspective Series; Kris Wischenkmper, Copy Editor; Paola Celli, Senior eProduction Editor; and Tom Hussey, Book Cover Designer.

The transition to democracy and the demise of color politics in Haiti is a revised version of the article: From Franois Duvalier to Jean-Bertrand Aristide: The Declining Significance of Color Politics in Haiti, in Kate Quinn and Paul Sutton, eds. Politics and Power in Haiti, 4363. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Reprinted with permission from Palgrave Macmillan.

The World Bank and Haiti: abetting dictatorship, undermining democracy is a revised version of the article Globalization, the World Bank, and the Haitian Economy, in Franklin W. Knight and Teresita Martinez-Vergne, Contemporary Caribbean Cultures in a Global Context, 4370. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Reprinted with permission from The University of North Carolina Press.

Class, power, sovereignty: Haiti before and after the earthquake is a revised version of the article Class, Power, Sovereignty: Haiti Before and After the Earthquake, in Linden Lewis, ed., Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization, 1734. New York: Routledge, 2013. Reprinted with permission from Routledge.