Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick — Haiti: The Breached Citadel (1990; revised and updated edition 2004) Source Information
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Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick — Haiti: The Breached Citadel (1990; revised and updated edition 2004)
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Author: Patrick Bellegarde-Smith (not dantes bellegarde — these are different people; Dantès Bellegarde is the occupation-era historian; Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is a contemporary scholar and Vodou initiate)
Full Title: Haiti: The Breached Citadel
Publication: First edition, Westview Press, 1990. Revised and updated edition, Canadian Scholars' Press, Toronto, 2004
Type: Secondary Source — comprehensive survey of Haitian history, political economy, society, culture, and Vodou; written from an explicitly Haitian scholarly and spiritual standpoint
Language: English
Cover art: Cameau Rameau, Les Dieux Vaudou se penchant sur le destin d'Haiti (The Vodou Gods Considering Haiti's Fate), oil on canvas
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Haiti: The Breached Citadel is the most comprehensive single-volume overview of Haitian history, politics, economy, society, and culture in the vault. It covers the full arc from Saint-Domingue's colonial economy through the Haitian Revolution, post-independence political crises, the U.S.
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