In the Shadow of Powers
Dantes Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought
Out of a slave rebellion, Haiti was forged as an independent nation. This fact, in and of itself, should have been enough to perpetuate an image of Haitians as strong and agentive people. But leaders of countries on both sides of the Atlantic felt threatened by Haiti's beginnings and were intent on sapping it of resources. More than a century of various restrictions on trade, the imposition of crippling fines, and, eventually, a US occupation followed. Yet even as they suffered economically under these penalties, Haitians persisted, some of them becoming influential actors in the world of global politics.Throughout much of the twentieth centu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8265-2227-6
- EAN: 9780826522276
- Produktnummer: 31962012
- Verlag: Kensington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 302 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'576 KB
- Auflage: Second Edition
Über den Autor
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is a professor emeritus of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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