The Rainy Season: Haiti Since DuvalierThis welcome interpretation of Haiti provides many insights into a country that few North Americans understand. Wilentz, a journalist, captures the complex cultural ambience and mystery of domestic politics with a penetrating eye and powerful description. Covering the years 1986-89, Wilentz analyzes political developments, centering her interpretations on the activities of a radical priest, interspersed with individual Haitian portraits and personal incidents. The flavor of Haiti is superbly conveyed, as are some unsavory aspects of the role of the press, the Catholic Church, and the U.S. embassy, but Wilentz's narrative is often unclear and her objectivity flawed. For academic and large public libraries.-- Roderic A. Camp, Central Coll., Pella, Ia . -Library Journal. |
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... French , who began to dominate the colony in 1659 . The urgent need for a labor force created a volatile political situa- tion in the colony and the tinder that would eventually be set off by the democratic ideas of the French ...
... French , who began to dominate the colony in 1659 . The urgent need for a labor force created a volatile political situa- tion in the colony and the tinder that would eventually be set off by the democratic ideas of the French ...
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... French shot down an approaching battalion of slaves , a new one seemed to rise up behind it , and kept coming . Among the black troops were marrons , or Maroons , slaves who had fled the hardships of the plantations many years before ...
... French shot down an approaching battalion of slaves , a new one seemed to rise up behind it , and kept coming . Among the black troops were marrons , or Maroons , slaves who had fled the hardships of the plantations many years before ...
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... French planters , on their mu- latto counterparts ( freemen who often owned plantations and slaves themselves ) ; and on their property by the Maroons , often abetted by France's rivals to the east , the Spaniards . Of an incident in ...
... French planters , on their mu- latto counterparts ( freemen who often owned plantations and slaves themselves ) ; and on their property by the Maroons , often abetted by France's rivals to the east , the Spaniards . Of an incident in ...
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