Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Using a wide range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces a critical half-century in the development of the social, economic, and…
A comparative history of Jamaica and Saint-Domingue -- The plantation world -- Urban life -- The Seven Years' War in the West Indies -- Dangerous internal enemies -- Racial reconfigurations before the American Revolution -- The golden age of the plantocracy -- The American Revol…
Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters, merchants, and official…
Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters, merchants, and official…
"Nan Non Sivilizasyon; se yon liv ki detaye lavi peyizan nan peyi d Ayiti. Li rale nou pou l montre n kijan peyizan ap viv epi li mennen nou vini sou yon pwogram adopsyon ki te tabli nan peyi a nan lanne 1980-85 yo. Se pa 2 ti moun pwogram sa a te separe ak paran yo (adopte) pou…
This book seeks to explain the causes of Haiti's underdevelopment since the end of the seventeenth century. During the 1960s and 1970s several original paradigms emerged to explain the causes and persistence of underdevelopment in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the renewed …
This book examines a critical period of Haitian history and diplomacy. The author contends that the social, economic, and political decline of Haiti during the early part of the century was hastened by many factors: the growing commercial and military competition in the Caribbea…
This book examines a critical period of Haitian history and diplomacy. The author contends that the social, economic, and political decline of Haiti during the early part of the century was hastened by many factors: the growing commercial and military competition in the Caribbea…
Does the scientific 'theory' that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Paul Farmer answers with this ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society.
