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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... Haiti . Shot , and then tied to a door near the Cap - Haïtien barracks , nearly naked , with a Haitian flag and crucifix propped up against his dead shoulder . Major J.J. Meade , the Amer- ican commander of the north , had a photograph ...
... Haiti . Shot , and then tied to a door near the Cap - Haïtien barracks , nearly naked , with a Haitian flag and crucifix propped up against his dead shoulder . Major J.J. Meade , the Amer- ican commander of the north , had a photograph ...
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Haiti Since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. 1 gressive church as a whole . If we don't stop this , if we don't say no , absolutely no ... Cap - Haïtien , and gave a lengthy sermon about the importance of self - defense ( in French the phrase has a ...
Haiti Since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. 1 gressive church as a whole . If we don't stop this , if we don't say no , absolutely no ... Cap - Haïtien , and gave a lengthy sermon about the importance of self - defense ( in French the phrase has a ...
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Haiti Since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. run plantations - basically a new brand of slavery , this time man- aged by blacks ... Cap - Haïtien . Boyer , who had served Pétion as secretary and who upon Pétion's death in 1818 succeeded him as ...
Haiti Since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. run plantations - basically a new brand of slavery , this time man- aged by blacks ... Cap - Haïtien . Boyer , who had served Pétion as secretary and who upon Pétion's death in 1818 succeeded him as ...
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