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1 online resource (257 pages). |
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text file |
Series |
Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series
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Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series.
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Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by Franck Laraque; Preface; 1 Globalization, the ""New World Order Imperialism, "" and Haiti; 2 Before Aristide: Class Power, State Power, and the Duvalier Dictatorships, 1957-1990; 3 The Prophet Armed: The Popular Movement for Democracy and the Rise of Jean-Bertrand Aristide; 4 The Prophet Disarmed: The First Lavalas Government and Its Overthrow; 5 The Prophet Checkmated: The Political Opposition and the Low-Intensity War against Aristide; 6 The Prophet Banished: The Second Overthrow of Aristide and the Pacification of Haiti. |
Bibliography |
ReferencesIndex; About the Author. |
Summary |
This compelling book offers a comprehensive analysis of the struggle for democracy in Haiti, set in the context of the tumultuous rise and fall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Written by one of the world's leading scholars of Haiti, The Prophet and Power explores the crisis of democratization in a poor, underdeveloped, peripheral society with a long history of dictatorial rule by a tiny ruling class opposed to changing the status quo and dependent on international economic and political support. Situating the country in its global context, Alex Dupuy considers the structures and relations of. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand.
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Aristide, Jean-Bertrand. |
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Democratization -- Haiti -- History.
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Democratization. |
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Haiti. |
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History. |
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Social change -- Haiti -- History.
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Social change. |
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Haiti -- Politics and government -- 1986-
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Politics and government. |
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1986- |
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Since 1986 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Dupuy, Alex. Prophet and Power : Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2006 9780742538313 |
ISBN |
9781461645368 (electronic book) |
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1461645360 (electronic book) |
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0742538303 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780742538306 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0742538311 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780742538313 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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