Dubois, Laurent — Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012) Source Information
Author: Laurent Dubois
Full Title: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Publisher: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt
Year: 2012
Type: Secondary Source — political, social, and economic history of Haiti from independence to the 2010 earthquake
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Graph review in this pass: Strengthened 1825 indemnity, counter plantation system, lakou, us occupation haiti, charlemagne peralte, francois duvalier, jean claude duvalier, jean price mars, jacques roumain, revolution of 1946, noirisme, jean bertrand aristide, moc sources, moc historiography, moc timeline, and created or materially extended pont rouge, métayage, bolivar haiti, us non recognition haiti, hasco, shada, pig eradication 1983, 1991 coup haiti, structural adjustment haiti, minustah, ngo republic, 2010 earthquake, 2010 cholera outbreak haiti, post earthquake reconstruction haiti, lavalas, dumarsais estimé, paul magloire, lorimer denis, élie lescot, jean dominique, and marie vieux chauvet Overview Haiti: The Aftershocks of History is the vault's single most comprehensive long-arc narrative of Haitian history from 1804 to the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. Dubois builds the entire book around one central argument: Haiti's poverty and political instability are not cultural failures, accidents of nature, or the result of bad governance alone. They are the predictable outcome of specific, traceable historical decisions — the 1825 indemnity, the US occupation, Duvalierist extraction, and the structural adjustment and NGO regimes that followed.