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The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
Jonathan M. Katz · Palgrave Macmillan Trade; 1st edition
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Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan AwardWinner of the Washington Office on Latin America/Duke Human Rights Book AwardWinner of the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress AwardFinalist for the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeFinalist for the New York Public... |
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Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life
Philippe R Girard · Basic Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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Toussaint Louverture's life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. Born into bondage in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) , the richest colony in the Western Hemisphere, he witnessed first-hand the torture of the enslaved population. Yet he managed to secure his freedom and establish... |
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Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
Amy Wilentz · Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
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The Rainy Season, Amy Wilentzs award-winning 1989 portrait of Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, was praised in the New York Times Book Review as a remarkable account of a journalists transformation by her subject. In her relationship with the country since then, Wilentz has witnessed... |
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A Wedding in Haiti
Julia Alvarez · Algonquin Books; 1 edition
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Julia Alvarez has been called quota one-woman cultural collisionquot by theLos Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships-with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti. A teenager... |
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Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Laurent Dubois · Metropolitan Books; First Edition edition
Format: Print book |
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A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic historyEven before the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty... |
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A Promise in Haiti: A Reporter's Notes on Families and Daily Lives
Mark Curnutte · Vanderbilt University Press
Pages: 272
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When a devastating earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010, the world reacted with a collective, yet distant, horror. For Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Mark Curnutte, hearing the news provoked a far more visceral response. Curnutte had grown to love Haiti and its people... |
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Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People 1492-1995
Robert Debs Heinl |
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This newly revised edition of Written in Blood, expanded by Michael Heinl, includes new research and an updated version of the 1996 edition's orthography of Creole. Written in Blood remains the most complete history of Haiti ever written in English and one of the mos |
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Creole Kitchen: Sunshine Flavors from the Caribbean
Vanessa Bolosier |
Sunshine-filled fusion food that will transport you to a beachside paradise, without leaving your kitchen. The Creole Kitchen is an excitingly original collection of French Caribbean Creole recipes packed with exotic flavors that will set the tastebuds tingling.
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Here...There and Beyond The Work of 16 Haitian Artists of Florida
Kristo |
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Here... There and Beyond presents the work of sixteen Haitian artists in Florida. The book presents a collective effort to define this new breed of artists in the Haitian Diaspora and to provide them the means to access mainstream art world. Each chapter is divided in several them |
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